Praxidike
Praxidike is identified in the Orphic Hymn to Persephone as an epithet of Persephone, described as the subterranean queen and source of the Eumenides. She is fair-haired and her frame proceeds from Zeus' ineffable and secret seeds.
↻ synthesized from 4 sources
When
- First attested
- 1000 BCE
- Attested period
- -1000 – 500
- Historical notes
- Attested in Greek mythology and referenced by Mnaseas.
Relationships
- syncretized with
- Persephone
- consort of
- Soter
- sibling of
- Soter
- child of
- Zeus
Mentioned by
Sources
Source passages
“Praxidike, the Orphic Hymn to Persephone identifies Praxidike as an epithet of Persephone: 'Praxidike, subterranean queen. The Eumenides' source [mother], fair-haired, whose frame proceeds from Zeus' ineffable and secret seeds.'”
#13029 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Arete was occasionally personified as a goddess, the sister of Homonoia (goddess of concord, unanimity, and oneness of mind), and the daughter of Praxidike (goddess of justice).”
#27755 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat
“Homonoia was believed to be the daughter of Soter, the saviour daimon, and Praxidike, the goddess of judicial punishment and vengeance. Praxidike (Exacter of Justice): A deity whose head alone is venerated. Mnaseas in his treatise On Europe says that Soter (Saviour) and his sister Praxidike”
#28607 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“Praxidike (Exacter of Justice): A deity whose head alone is venerated. Mnaseas in his treatise On Europe says that Soter (Saviour) and his sister Praxidike (Exacter of Justice) had a son Ctesius (Household) and daughters Homonoia (Concord) and Arete (Virtue), who were called Praxidikai (Exacters of Penalties) after their mother.”
#34047 · extracted by deepseek/deepseek-chat