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
- Orphica, Theogonies Fragments - Greek Hymns C3rd B.C. - C2nd A.D.
OTHER SOURCES
Other references not currently quoted here: Orphic Fragments, Inscriptiones Graecae 4.676.
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