Aletheia

"Truth." The allegorical goddess of truth and truthfulness and sincerity. According to some she is a child of Zeus1 while others say that she was sculpted by Prometheus.2 The Romans called her Veritas.

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References

Notes

  1. Pindar. Olympian Odes, 11.
  2. Aesop. Fables, 550.

Sources

  • Comes Natalis iii, c. 14.
  • Hederich, Benjamin. (1770). Gründliches mythologisches Lexikon. Leipzig, p. 186-187.