| Greek Name |
Transliteration |
Latin Spelling |
Translation |
| KoalemoV |
Koalemos |
Coalemus |
Stupidity,
Foolishness |
KOALEMOS was the god or spirit (daimon) of stupidity and foolishness. His name is derived from the words koeô and êleos, meaning "hearing foolishness."
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Perhaps a son of NYX, though nowhere stated
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Aristophanes, Birds 220 ff (trans. O'Neill) (Greek comedy C5th to 4th B.C.) :
"Come, take a chaplet, offer a libation to Koalemos the god of Stupidity and take care to fight vigorously."
Plutarch, Life of Cimon 4. 3 (trans. Perrin) (Greek historian C1st to C2nd A.D.) :
"He [a man] had the bad name of being dissolute and bibulous, and of taking after his grandfather Kimon, who, they say, because of his simplicity, was dubbed Koalemos (the Stupid-One)."
Sources:
- Aristophanes, Knights - Greek Comedy C5th-4th B.C.
- Plutarch, Lives - Greek Historian C1st-2nd A.D.
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