Enyo

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Enyo is a Greek goddess of war and destruction, often depicted as a close companion and counterpart to the war god Ares.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Enyo canonical 3

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek goddess
war deity
associatedConcept battle frenzy
bloodshed
city-ruining war
associatedWith Ares
companionOf Ares
contrastedWith peace deities
counterpartOf Ares
culture Greek
describedBy Hesiod
Homer
describedIn Homer's Iliad
surface form: Iliad

later Greek mythographic texts
domain destruction
war
epithet “sacker of cities”
“waster of cities”
gender female
hasRomanEquivalent Bellona
influenceOn later representations of war goddesses
languageOfName Ancient Greek
memberOf Phorcydes
mentionedIn scholia on classical texts
moralAlignment destructive aspect of war
mythologicalEra Archaic Greek religion
nameInGreek Ἐνυώ
nameTransliteration Enyō
oftenDepictedWith Ares on the battlefield
parents Ceto
Phorcys
participatesIn battles
sieges of cities
role bringer of carnage
personification of war’s destruction
sharesCultWith Ares
sometimesConfusedWith Eris
sometimesIdentifiedWith Eris
symbol burning cities
weapons of war
typeOfDeity Olympian-associated deity
worshippedIn Athens
Sparta
Thebes
ancient Greece
worshipType chthonic aspects in some traditions

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Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ares associatedWith Enyo
Eileithyia sibling Enyo
Graeae member Enyo