Euthenia
{{Short description|Ancient Greek female spirit of prosperity}}
Euthenia ({{IPAc-en|j|u:|'|T|i:|n|i|@}};{{Cite web|url=https://www.britishbabynames.com/blog/2012/01/eu-beauty.html|title=Eu Beauty!|website=British Baby Names}} {{Langx|el|Ευσθένεια}}, Eustheneia) was the feminine personification of prosperity, abundance, and wealth. The Goddess contrasting her is Penia ("Poverty").{{cn|date=April 2025}} Their sisters were Eucleia, Eupheme, and Philophrosyne. Along with her sisters, she was a member of the younger Charites.{{cn|date=April 2025}} According to the Orphic fragments, her parents were Hephaestus and Aglaia.Orphic [https://archive.org/details/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft/page/212/mode/2up fr. 182 Kern, p. 213].
Cultural Significance
As a symbol of prosperity and wealth she has been depicted across culture, often on coins and venerated through ritualistic practices.
= Rome =
On Roman coins, Euthenia is often compared to Abundantia, the personification of abundance and prosperity, and Annona, the personification of the grain supply to Rome.{{Cite web |title=Euthenia and Demeter - Elagabalus |url=https://sites.google.com/site/elagabaluscoins/euthenia-and-demeter |access-date=2020-04-07 |website=sites.google.com}}
= Egypt =
She is also a part of the Egyptian pantheon, though was later assimilated to tales related to Goddess Isis. During Ptolemaic times, she became the consort of Nilus.{{Cite web|url=http://www.coinsofromanegypt.org/html/library/curtis/curtis_chapter_I.htm|title=Curtis Chapter I|website=www.coinsofromanegypt.org|access-date=2020-04-07}} Her first appearance on Egyptian coins date back to the last decade of BC.{{Cite journal|last=Kákosy|first=László|date=1982|title=The Nile, Euthenia, and the Nymphs|journal=The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology|volume=68|pages=290–298|doi=10.2307/3821647|jstor=3821647|issn=0307-5133}}
References
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- Kern, Otto, Orphicorum Fragmenta, Berlin, 1922. [https://archive.org/stream/orphicorumfragme00orphuoft#page/n5/mode/2up Scans at the Internet Archive].
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Category:Personifications in Greek mythology
Category:Children of Hephaestus
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