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Pages in category "Epithets of Demeter" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Amphictyonis;
] Demeter Erinyes—the angry, bereft Demeter [3] —or Cybele. [4] Brimo is the "furious" aspect of the Furies. In the solemn moment when Medea picks the dire underworld root for Jason, she calls seven times upon Brimo, "she who haunts the night, the Nursing Mother [Kourotrophos]. In black weed and murky gloom she dwells, Queen of the Dead". [5]
In Arcadia Demeter had the epithets Erinys (fury) and Melaina (black) which are associated with the myth of Demeter's rape by Poseidon. The epithets stress the darker side of her character and her relation to the dark underworld, in an old chthonic cult associated with wooden structures (xoana).
Kore and Despoina were known together with their mother Demeter as Despoinai, "the Mistresses", or Megalai Theai, "Great Goddesses". [6] Sometimes Demeter's daughters are conflated by ancient and modern writers; [7] however, Arcadian cults infer that there was a clear a differentiation. Pausanias, for example, explains:
Many of the Greek deities are known from as early as Mycenaean (Late Bronze Age) civilization. This is an incomplete list of these deities [n 1] and of the way their names, epithets, or titles are spelled and attested in Mycenaean Greek, written in the Linear B [n 2] syllabary, along with some reconstructions and equivalent forms in later Greek.
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A characteristic of Homer's style is the use of epithets, as in "rosy-fingered" Dawn or "swift-footed" Achilles.Epithets are used because of the constraints of the dactylic hexameter (i.e., it is convenient to have a stockpile of metrically fitting phrases to add to a name) and because of the oral transmission of the poems; they are mnemonic aids to the singer and the audience alike.