Enyalius

Enyalius

Enyalius in Greek mythology is generally a byname of Ares the god of war but is sometimes differentiated.

Homer calls Ares 'Enyalios' (Ἐνυάλιος) in "Iliad" book xx, and Aristophanes (in "Peace"), envisages Ares and Enyalios as separate gods of war.

In "Argonautica" book II, part xiv, Jason sets the chthonic earthborn warriors fighting among themselves by hurling a boulder in their midst::'But Jason called to mind the counsels of Medea full of craft, and seized from the plain a huge round boulder, a terrible quoit of Ares Enyalius; four stalwart youths could not have raised it from the ground even a little.'

The urbane Alexandrian author gives his old tale a touch of appropriate Homeric antiquity by using such an ancient epithet.

Plutarch, in "Moralia" (2nd century), tells of the bravery of the women of Argos, in the 5th century BC, who repulsed the attacks of kings of Sparta. The survivors erected a temple to Ares Enyalius by the road where they fell::'After the city was saved, they buried the women who had fallen in battle by the Argive road, and as a memorial to the achievements of the women who were spared they dedicated a temple to Ares Enyalius... Up to the present day they celebrate the Festival of Impudence ("Hybristika") on the anniversary [of the battle] , putting the women into men's tunics and cloaks and the men in women's dresses and head-coverings.' [http://www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/wlgr/wlgr-publiclife160.shtml]

On the Linear B Knossos Tablet KN V 52 the name "E-nu-wa-ri-jo" is interpreted to refer to this same Enyalios. Enyalios is mentioned nine times in Homer's "Iliad" and in four of them it is in the same formula describing Meriones who is one of the leaders of from Crete.

A scholiast on Homer declares that the poet Alcman sometimes identified Ares with Enyalius and sometimes differentiated him, and that Enyalius was sometimes made the son of Ares by Enyo and sometimes the son of Cronus and Rhea. (From A. Bernabé "Poetae Epici Graeci", 44, Berlin, 1983- ). Ares and Enyalius are possibly differentiated in Aristophanes' comedy "Peace".

According to Pausanias (3.15.7) the Lacedaemonians believed that by chaining up Enyalius they would prevent the god from deserting Sparta. Pausanias also mentions at 3.14.9 and 3.20.2 that puppies were sacrificed to Enyalius in Sparta.

Polybius' history renders the Roman god Mars by Greek Ares but the Roman god Quirinus by Enyalius and the same identifications are made by later writers such as Dionysius of Halicarnassus, perhaps only because it made sense that a Roman god who was sometimes confounded with Mars and sometimes differentiated should be represented in Greek by a name that was similarly sometimes equated with Ares (who definitely corresponded with Mars) and was sometimes differentiated.

Josephus in his "Antiquities" 4, (3) [115] states after telling the story of the Tower of Babel:

:But as to the plan of Shinar, in the country of Babylonia, Hestiaeus mentions it, when he says thus: "Such of the priests as were saved, took the sacred vessels of Zeus Enyalius, and came to Shinar of Babylonia."

The context of the reference ascribed to Hesitaeus is unknown.


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