ADEPHAGIA
Greek Name
Αδηφαγια
Transliteration
Adêphagia
Latin Spelling
Adephagia
Translation
Gluttony
ADEPHAGIA was the goddess of gluttony or eating ones full who possessed a temple in one of the Greek colonies of Sicily.
She was probably worshipped as a goddess of agricultural bounty rather than self-indulgence or excess.
PARENTS
Nowhere stated
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Aelian, Historical Miscellany 1. 27 (trans. Wilson) (Greek rhetorician C2nd to 3rd A.D.) :
"It is also said that there is a temple to Adephagia (Gluttony) in Sikelia (Sicily), and a statue of Demeter Sitos (the Corn-Goddess)."
SOURCES
GREEK
- Aelian, Historical Miscellany - Greek Rhetoric C2nd - 3rd A.D.
OTHER SOURCES
Other references not currently quoted here: Athenaeus 416b (after Polemon Historicus).
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