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Headword:
*tritopa/tores
Adler number: tau,1023
Translated headword: Tritopatores, Tritopatreis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demon in the
Atthis says that the Tritopatores are winds,[1]
Philochorus that the Tritopatores were born first of all. For the men of that time, he says, understood as their parents the earth and the sun, whom then they called Apollo.[2]
Phanodemus in [book] 6 maintains that only [the] Athenians both sacrifice to them and pray to them, when they are about to marry, for the conception of children.[3] In the
Physikos of Orpheus the Tritopatores are named Amalkeides and Protokles and Protokleon, being doorkeepers and guardians of the winds.[4] But the author of
Explanation claims that they are [the offspring] of Heaven and Earth, and that their names are Kottos, Briareon and Gyges.
Greek Original:*tritopa/tores: *dh/mwn e)n th=| *)atqi/di fhsi\n a)ne/mous ei)=nai tou\s *tritopa/toras, *filo/xoros de\ tou\s *tritopa/treis pa/ntwn gegone/nai prw/tous. th\n me\n ga\r gh=n kai\ to\n h(/lion, fhsi/n, o(\n kai\ *)apo/llwna to/te kalei=n, gonei=s au)tw=n e)pi/stanto oi( to/te a)/nqrwpoi, tou\s de\ e)k tou/twn tri/tous pate/ras. *fano/dhmos de\ e)n #2# fhsi/n, o(/ti mo/noi *)aqhnai=oi qu/ousi/ te kai\ eu)/xontai au)toi=s u(pe\r gene/sews pai/dwn, o(/tan gamei=n me/llwsin. e)n de\ tw=| *)orfe/ws *fusikw=| o)noma/zesqai tou\s *tritopa/toras *)amalkei/dhn kai\ *prwtokle/a kai\ *prwtokle/onta, qurwrou\s kai\ fu/lakas o)/ntas tw=n a)ne/mwn. o( de\ to\ *)echghtiko\n poih/sas *ou)ranou= kai\ *gh=s fhsin au)tou\s ei)=nai, o)no/mata de\ au)tw=n *ko/tton, *bria/rewn kai\ *gu/ghn.
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Reference:
OCD(4) s.v.
Keywords: children; daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; historiography; mythology; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 December 2000@08:51:21.
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