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In Greek mythology, Elpis (Ancient Greek: Ἐλπίς, romanized: Elpis, lit. 'hope') is the minor goddess ( daimon ) of hope, about which the Greeks had ambivalent feelings. She was never the centre of a cult, as was Spes , her Roman equivalent, and was chiefly the subject of ambiguous Greek aetiological myths.
Elpis may refer to: Elpis (mythology), Ancient Greek spirit of Hope; Elpis (wife of Boethius) (died c. AD 504), a Roman poet and hymnographer;
Elpis, first wife of the celebrated philosopher Boethius, was the daughter of Festus, Consul at Rome in AD 472, and sister of the mother of Saint Placidus, a disciple of Saint Benedict. The hymn "Aurea luce et decore roseo" is usually, but somewhat uncertainly, attributed to her. Others also bear her name. She died at an early age, at Padua. [2]
Elpis (Ἐλπίς), spirit of hope and expectation; Epiphron (Ἐπίφρων), spirit of prudence, shrewdness, thoughtfulness, carefulness, and sagacity; Eris (Ἔρις), spirit of strife, discord, contention, and rivalry; The Erotes (ἔρωτες) Anteros (Ἀντέρως), god of requited love; Eros (Ἔρως), god of love and sexual ...
Classical authors use the word elpis to mean "expectation of bad", as well as "expectation of good". Statistical analysis demonstrates that the latter sense appears five times more than the former in all of extant ancient Greek literature. [24] Others hold the minority view that elpis should be rendered "expectation of evil" (vel sim). [25]
The Greek counterpart of Spes was Elpis, who by contrast had no formal cult in Greece.The primary myth in which Elpis plays a role is the story of Pandora.The Greeks had ambivalent or even negative feelings about "hope", with Euripides describing it in his Suppliants as "delusive" and stating "it has embroiled many a State", [13] and the concept was unimportant in the philosophical systems of ...
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She is known as Elpis in Greek and Spes in Church Latin and her name is translated differently in other languages. Faith, Hope and Charity, the three theological virtues, are names traditionally given to triplet girls, just as Faith and Hope remain common names for twin girls.