Enyo
Enyo is one of the Graiae in Greek mythology. She is the daughter of Ceto and Phorcys. The Graiae are also referred to as the Graeae ('old women').
↻ synthesized from 6 sources
When
- First attested
- 800 BCE
- Attested period
- -800 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in Hesiod's Theogony.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Sthenno, Hesperides, Nemean lion, Veles, Ahi Budhnya, Graeae, Éris, Themis, Keres, Phobos, Deimos, Medusa, sphinxes, Echidna, Euryale, Ladon, Phorcys, Gorgons, Ceto, Zeus, Mars, Hera, Athena
- parent of
- Enyalius
- serves
- Ares
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Hesiod's Theogony lists the children of Ceto and Phorcys as the two Graiae: Pemphredo and Enyo, and the three Gorgons: Sthenno, Euryale, and Medusa”
#5986 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“According to Krzysztof Witczak, Niya is the Slavic equivalent of the Greek goddess Enyo. Both were supposed to be the remains of a proto-Indo-European goddess, "the perpetrator, the performer of disappearance, i.e. drying, disappearing", and reconstructed the name of this goddess as *Nūyā”
#13647 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Athena, and Enyo, was said to have received the surname of Homoloïus from Homoloïs, a priestess of Enyo. A statue of Enyo, made by the sons of Praxiteles, stood in the temple of Ares at Athens. Her name might be preserved on the cornice of one of the friezes of the Gigantomachy altar”
#28244 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Hesiod names only two Graeae, the "well-clad" "Pemphredo" (Πεμφρηδώ "alarm") and the "saffron-robed" Enyo (Ἐνυώ), while Apollodorus lists Deino (Δεινώ "dread", the dreadful anticipation of horror) as a third.”
#28347 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus describes the images decorating the shield of Achilles, which, among others such as Eris, the Furies, and the war-goddess Enyo, also included the Hysminai, alongside Thanatos (Death).”
#28670 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat