Eirene
Eirene is the Greek personification of Peace. In Aristophanes' Peace, she is trapped in a deep pit by War and is rescued with the aid of Hermes.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 700 BCE
- Attested period
- -700 – 2020
- Historical notes
- One of the three Horae in most classical Greek accounts, daughter of Zeus and Themis.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Shai, Nemea, Selene, Ersa, Pandia, Endymion, Narcissus, Musaeus, Eumolpus, Auxo, Thallo, Carpo, Horai, Eunomia, Dike, Leto, Muses, Mnemosyne, Clotho, Lachesis, Aglaea, Euphrosyne, Thalia, Brontes, Helios, Hera, Agathos Daimon, Tyche Agathe, Moirai, Zeus, Themis, Gaia, Apollo, Artemis, Uranus, Athena, Demeter, Persephone, Atropos, Eurynome, Metis
- allied with
- Hermes
Mentioned by
- Helios
- Hera
- Agathos Daimon
- Tyche Agathe
- Moirai
- Zeus
- Themis
- Gaia
- Apollo
- Artemis
- Uranus
- Athena
- Demeter
- Persephone
- Atropos
- Eurynome
and 5 more
Sources
Source passages
“In Aristophanes' Peace, when War has trapped Peace (Εἰρήνη Eirene) in a deep pit, Hermes comes to give aid: Now, oh Greeks! is the moment when, freed of quarrels and fighting, we should rescue sweet Eirene.”
#9054 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“in most other accounts their number is three; Eirene ("peace"), Eunomia ("order"), and Dike ("justice"), and their parents are Zeus and Themis instead.”
#19024 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Eirene (Εἰρήνη. "Peace", her Roman equivalent was Pax) was the personification of peace and wealth, and was depicted in art as a beautiful young woman carrying a cornucopia, scepter, and a torch or rhyton.”
#28638 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“with whom he has the Horae, listed as Eunomia, Dike and Eirene...”
#45290 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free