Rhapso
In Greek mythology, Rhapso[pronunciation?] (Ancient Greek: Ῥαψώ) was a nymph or a minor goddess worshipped at Athens. She is known solely from an inscription of the 4th century BCE, found at Phalerum.[1] Her name apparently derives from the Greek verb ῥάπτω meaning "to sew" or "to stitch".[2]
According to some, she is associated with the Moirai (as a fate goddess) and Eileithyia (as a birth goddess); she somehow organized a man's thread of life, at birth, by some sort of stitching work (similar to Clotho of the Moirai). And according to others, she was possibly a patroness of seamstresses.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ↑ Inscriptiones Graecae, 22, 4547
- ↑ Liddell & Scott 1940, s.v. ῥάπτω
- ↑ Rice & Stambaugh 2009, p. 114.
References
[edit]- H. G. Liddel, R. Scott, H. Stuart Jones, R. McKenzie. Greek-English Lexicon. Revised supplement. Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1996; p. 269, under Ῥαψώ
- Chantraine, Pierre. Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque. Histoire des mots. Tome IV-1. Paris, Éditions Klincksiek, 1977; p. 967, sous ῥάπτω (French)
- Glossalalia: an alphabet of critical keywords, by Julian Wolfreys, Harun Karim Thomas
- David Gerard Rice, and John E. Stambaugh. Sources for the study of Greek religion, 2009. pp. 114, 115.
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