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Greek Mythology >> Greek Gods >> Daemones (Spirits) >> Coalemus (Koalemos)

KOALEMOS

Greek Name

Κοαλεμος

Transliteration

Koalemos

Latin Spelling

Coalemus

Translation

Stupidity, Fool

KOALEMOS (Coalemus) was the personified spirit (daimon) of stupidity and foolishness. His name was derived from the words koeô and êleos meaning "to hear foolishness."


PARENTS

Perhaps a son of NYX, though nowhere stated


CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Aristophanes, Birds 220 ff (trans. O'Neill) (Greek comedy C5th to 4th B.C.) :
"Come, take a chaplet, offer a libation to Koalemos (Coalemus) the god of dtupidity 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 (Cimon), who, they say, because of his simplicity, was dubbed Koalemos (Coalemus), the Stupid-One."


SOURCES

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