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Eirene was particularly well regarded by the citizens of Athens. After a naval victory over Sparta in 375 BC, the Athenians established a cult for Peace, erecting altars to her. They held an annual state sacrifice to her after 371 BC to commemorate the Common Peace of that year and set up a votive statue in her honour in the Agora of Athens.
The Greek goddess Eirene, personification of peace, holds Plutos, the god of wealth, in her arms (Roman copy of a statue by Cephisodotus; Athens c. 370 BC. The idea of the Common Peace (Κοινὴ Εἰρήνη, Koinē Eirēnē) was one of the most influential concepts of 4th century BC Greek political thought, along with the idea of Panhellenism.
Eirene / aɪ ˈ r iː n iː /, also Jupiter LVII and originally known as S/2003 J 5, is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by a team of astronomers from the University of Hawaii led by Scott S. Sheppard in 2003 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] but was then lost .
In Greek mythology, Eirene (/ aɪ ˈ r iː n i /; Ancient Greek: Εἰρήνη, romanized: Eirḗnē, lit. 'Peace', Ancient Greek pronunciation: [eːrɛ̌ːnɛː]) or Irene, was a daughter of Poseidon and Melanthea, daughter of Alpheus. She gave her name to Eirene, a small island near the Peloponnese. [1]
Eirene may refer to: Eirene (artist), 1st-century Greek artist; Eirene (daughter of Poseidon), in Greek mythology; Eirene, a genus of hydrozoans in the family Eirenidae; Eirene (goddess), the Greek personification of peace; Eirene (moon), a moon of Jupiter; Eirene (Rome character) Eirene of Montferrat, Byzantine Empress consort
In 1193, her father and King Tancred of Sicily arranged Irene's marriage with Tancred's eldest son, Roger. [2] Her husband was declared co-king, but he died on 24 December 1193, shortly before his father's death on 20 February 1194. Sicily was claimed by Tancred's aunt Constance and her husband, Emperor Henry VI. Irene was captured 29 December ...
Roman copy of the Eirene (Glyptothek, Munich) Bust of Artemis Soteira of Cephisodotus the Elder, Roman copy of the 1st-2nd century CE (Pavia City Museums, Italy). Cephisodotus or Kephisodotos (Greek: Κηφισόδοτος, flourished c. 400 – c. 360 BC [1]) was a Greek sculptor, perhaps the father or an uncle of Praxiteles, one of whose sculptor sons was Cephisodotus the Younger.
Irene Laskarina (born c. 1194-1199 CE, died 1240 CE) (Greek: Εἰρήνη Λασκαρίνα, Eirēnē Laskarina) was Empress consort of Nicaea. [1] [2] She was a daughter of Theodore I Laskaris, [3] emperor of Nicaea and Anna Komnene Angelina.