Derceto
deity Syria single tradition · 2
Derceto is a Syrian goddess. S. Safrai and M. Stern posit that Pliny or his source misread the name cetus—or that of the Syrian goddess Derceto.
↻ synthesized from 2 sources
When
- First attested
- 400 BCE
- Attested period
- -400 – 100
- Historical notes
- Mentioned by Pliny the Elder.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Hera
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Pliny or his source misread the name cetus—or that of the Syrian goddess Derceto.”
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“Ctesias's account, according to one analysis, is composed of two myths, the Derceto transformation myth, and the Semiramis birth myth, and a telling of each myth are told by a number of classical writers. The first myth (the Derceto metamorphosis into fish) is told, e.g., by Ovid as a Dione-Cupid myth”
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