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EUTHENIA

Greek Name

Ευθηνια

Transliteration

Euthênia

Latin Spelling

Euthenia

Translation

Prosperity, Abundance

EUTHENIA was the goddess or personified spirit (daimona) of prosperity and abundance. She and her three sisters--Eukleia (Good Repute), Philophrosyne (Welcome) and Eupheme (Acclaim)--were probably the goddesses known collectively as the younger Kharites (Charites). Her opposite number was Penia (Poverty).


PARENTS

HEPHAISTOS & AGLAIA (Orphic Rhapsodies Frag)


SOURCES

GREEK

OTHER SOURCES

Other references not currently quoted here: Orphic Fragments, Inscriptiones Graecae 4.676.

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