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Headword:
*xalki/oikos
Adler number: chi,46
Translated headword: Bronze-House, of the Bronze House; Chalkioikos
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [An epithet of] Athena in
Sparta. [The term arose] either because she has a bronze house; or because it is a solid one; or because exiles from Chalkis [
Myth,
Place] in Euboia founded it.
*xalki/oikos: h( *)aqhna= e)n *spa/rth|. h)\ o(/ti xalkou=n ei)=xen oi)=kon: h)\ dia\ to\ stereo\n ei)=nai: h)\ dia\ to\ tou\s *xalkidei=s tou\s e)c *eu)boi/as fuga/das au)to\n kti/sai.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.128.2, where the headword occurs (and recurs at 1.134.1 & 4). See also e.g.
Euripides,
Helen 228 & 245;
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 1299;
Lycurgus 1.128,
Polybius 4.22.8 and 4.35.2.
Pausanias 3.17.1-3 gives reasons for accepting the first of the three etymologies proffered here; he saw it himself, and reports that both the temple and the cult-image were of bronze.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 November 2001@11:25:33.
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