Epaine

That is, the fearful, a surname of Persephone.1 Plutarch2 derives the name from αἶνος (ainos), which suggests, that it might also be understood in a euphemistic sense as the praised goddess.

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References

Notes

  1. Homer. Iliad ix, 457.
  2. De Audiendis Poetis, p. 23, a.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.