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In Greek mythology, Elpis (Ancient Greek: Ἐλπίς, romanized: Elpis, lit. 'hope') is the minor goddess ( daimon ) of hope, about which the Greeks had ambivalent feelings. She was never the centre of a cult, as was Spes , her Roman equivalent, and was chiefly the subject of ambiguous Greek aetiological myths.
The name is also the usual English translation of the Greek name of Saint Hope, an early Christian child martyr who was tortured to death along with her sisters Faith and Charity. She is known as Elpis in Greek and Spes in Church Latin and her name is translated differently in other languages.
Elpis may refer to: Elpis (mythology), Ancient Greek spirit of Hope; Elpis (wife of Boethius) (died c. AD 504), a Roman poet and hymnographer; Storm Elpis, Greek windstorm and blizzard in January 2022; 59 Elpis, a main-belt asteroid
In Bulgarian and Russian, on the other hand, Nadia or Nadya (Надя, accent on first syllable) is the diminutive form of the full name Nadyezhda (Надежда), meaning "hope" and derived from Old Church Slavonic, which it entered as a translation of the Greek word ελπίς (Elpis), with the same meaning. The name's early roots and ...
Classical authors use the word elpis to mean "expectation of bad", as well as "expectation of good". Statistical analysis demonstrates that the latter sense appears five times more than the former in all of extant ancient Greek literature. [24] Others hold the minority view that elpis should be rendered "expectation of evil" (vel sim). [25]
Elpis (Hope) appears in ancient Greek mythology with the story of Zeus and Prometheus. Prometheus stole fire from the god Zeus, which infuriated the supreme god. In turn, Zeus created a box that contained all manners of evil, unbeknownst to the receiver of the box.
Pistis in rhetoric can mean "proof" and is the element to induce true judgment through enthymemes, hence to give "proof" of a statement. [3] There are three modes by which this is employed. The first mode is the "subject matter capable of inducing a state of mind within the audience."
The origin of the name in Old Slavic meant "hope", but this meaning was preserved only in Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian. The name is a translation of the Greek name Ἐλπίς ( Elpis ), with the same meaning.