Reconnaître une déesse ailée au caducée

A small corpus of images of vases created in the Fifth Century BC raises the question of how to identify or confuse winged goddesses holding a caduceus, since these are often difficult to differentiate. The survey focuses on three divine figures: Iris the messenger, Nike the Victory and Eos the Dawn...

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Main Author: Annaïg Caillaud
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Anthropologie et Histoire des Mondes Antiques 2016-04-01
Series:Cahiers Mondes Anciens
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/mondesanciens/1705
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description A small corpus of images of vases created in the Fifth Century BC raises the question of how to identify or confuse winged goddesses holding a caduceus, since these are often difficult to differentiate. The survey focuses on three divine figures: Iris the messenger, Nike the Victory and Eos the Dawn. However in Greek polytheism, especially on the level of understanding of Greek religion that represents the images of Gods, these three goddesses cannot be reduced to such simple roles. Whether by associating a representation and an inscription, or by adding an attribute to a known iconographic scene, the authors wanted to identify one or another goddess. This is why the images could sometimes lead to confusion. It must therefore take various works to try to understand what the ancient painters wanted to show through what the modern researchers wanted to demonstrate.
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Reconnaître une déesse ailée au caducée
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winged goddess
caduceus
identification
title Reconnaître une déesse ailée au caducée
title_full Reconnaître une déesse ailée au caducée
title_fullStr Reconnaître une déesse ailée au caducée
title_full_unstemmed Reconnaître une déesse ailée au caducée
title_short Reconnaître une déesse ailée au caducée
title_sort reconnaitre une deesse ailee au caducee
topic red-figured vase
winged goddess
caduceus
identification
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