Edonus
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Script error: No such module "Infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Template:Wikidata imageTemplate:Compare image with WikidataIn Greek mythology, Edonus (Template:Langx) was the ancestor of the Edonians in Thrace and Thracian Macedonia. He was the son of Ares (god of war) and Calliope (muse of epic poetry). The names Edonus, Edonian, Edonic is therefore used also in the sense of "Thracian", and as Thrace was one of the principal seats of the worship of Dionysus, it further signifies "Dionysiac" or "Bacchantic".[1]
Notes
- ↑ Stephanus of Byzantium, s.v. Bistonia; Ovid, Remedia Amoris 593; Horace, Carmen Saeculare 2.7.27
References
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Stephani Byzantii Ethnicorum quae supersunt, edited by August Meineike (1790-1870), published 1849. A few entries from this important ancient handbook of place names have been translated by Brady Kiesling. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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