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Headword: *)erga/nh
Adler number: epsilon,2901
Translated headword: Ergane, Worker
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[An epithet of] Athena, [so called] in so far as she is overseer of the work [ergasia] of women. She has been named in this way amongst Athenians and Samians.[1] It also signifies the work [sc. itself].[2]
Greek Original:
*)erga/nh: h( *)aqhna=, par' o(/son e)/foro/s e)sti th=s tw=n gunaikw=n e)rgasi/as, tau/th| para\ *)aqhnai/ois kai\ *sami/ois ei)/rhtai. shmai/nei de\ kai\ th\n e)rgasi/an.
Notes:
For this epithet of Athena see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] cf. Hesychius epsilon5652. (Photius, Lexicon epsilon1892, deriving from Pausanias the Atticist epsilon61, is different.)
[2] Likewise, apparently in Hesychius loc.cit.; and LSJ provides a papyrological instance.
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; gender and sexuality; geography; trade and manufacture; women
Translated by: D. Graham J. Shipley on 23 November 2007@01:51:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplied notes and more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 23 November 2007@03:47:27.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 25 October 2012@06:36:18.
David Whitehead (another note; coding and other cosmetics) on 5 February 2016@10:06:18.

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