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Headword: Chalkioikos
Adler number: chi,46
Translated headword: Bronze-House, of the Bronze House; Chalkioikos
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[An epithet of] Athena in Sparta. [The term arose] either because she has a bronze house; or because it is a solid one; or because exiles from Chalkis [Myth, Place] in Euboia founded it.
Greek Original:
Chalkioikos: hê Athêna en Spartêi. ê hoti chalkoun eichen oikon: ê dia to stereon einai: ê dia to tous Chalkideis tous ex Euboias phugadas auton ktisai.
Notes:
From the scholia to Thucydides 1.128.2, where the headword occurs (and recurs at 1.134.1 & 4). See also e.g. Euripides, Helen 228 & 245; Aristophanes, Lysistrata 1299; Lycurgus 1.128, Polybius 4.22.8 and 4.35.2.
Pausanias 3.17.1-3 gives reasons for accepting the first of the three etymologies proffered here; he saw it himself, and reports that both the temple and the cult-image were of bronze.
Keywords: aetiology; architecture; art history; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; religion; rhetoric; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 November 2001@11:25:33.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 6 September 2002@01:29:03.
David Whitehead (added keywords) on 6 September 2002@03:19:07.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords) on 7 August 2011@07:53:29.
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