Πήγασος
Ancient Greek
Alternative forms
Etymology
Traditionally associated with πηγή (pēgḗ, “spring, fountain, fountain fed by a spring”), especially used to denote springs of Ocean, where Perseus killed Medusa, from whose blood Pegasus sprang.
One alternative etymology of this name is Luwian [script needed] (pihassas, “lightning”), and Pihassassi, a local Luwian-Hittite name in southern Cilicia of a weather god represented with thunder and lightning. The proponents of this etymology adduce Pegasus' role, reported as early as Hesiod, as the bringer of thunderbolts to Zeus. It was first suggested in 1952 and remains widely accepted,[1] but Robin Lane Fox (2009) has criticized it as implausible.[2]
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /pɛ̌ː.ɡa.sos/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈpe̝.ɡa.sos/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ɣa.sos/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ɣa.sos/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈpi.ɣa.sos/
Proper noun
Πήγᾰσος • (Pḗgasos) m (genitive Πηγᾰ́σου); second declension
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | ||||||||||||
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Nominative | ὁ Πήγᾰσος ho Pḗgasos | ||||||||||||
Genitive | τοῦ Πηγᾰ́σου toû Pēgásou | ||||||||||||
Dative | τῷ Πηγᾰ́σῳ tôi Pēgásōi | ||||||||||||
Accusative | τὸν Πήγᾰσον tòn Pḗgason | ||||||||||||
Vocative | Πήγᾰσε Pḗgase | ||||||||||||
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Derived terms
- Πηγᾰ́σειος (Pēgáseios)
Descendants
References
- “Πήγασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “Πήγασος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited, page 1,020
- ^ The connection of Pegasus with Pihassas was suggested by H.T. Bossert, "Die phönikisch-hethitischen Bilinguen vom Karatepe", Jahrbuch für kleinasiatische Forschung, 2 1952/53:333, P. Frei, "Die Bellerophontessaga und das Alte Testament", in B. Janowski, K. Koch and G. Wilhelm, eds., Religionsgeschichtliche Beziehungen zwischen Kleinasien, Nordsyrien und der Alte Testament, 1993:48f, and Hutter, "Der luwische Wettergott pihašsašsi under der griechischen Pegasos", in Chr. Zinko, ed. Studia Onomastica et Indogermanica... 1995:79–98. Commentary was provided by R. S. P. Beekes in his Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 1183.
- ^ "a storm god is not the origin of a horse. However, he had a like-sounding name, and Greek visitors to Cilicia may have connected their existing Pegasus with Zeus's lightning after hearing about this 'Pihassassi' and his functions and assuming, wrongly, he was their own Pegasus in a foreign land." Robin Lane Fox, Travelling Heroes in the Epic Age of Homer, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2009, →ISBN, pp. 207ff.
Further reading
Πήγασος (μυθολογία) on the Greek Wikipedia.Wikipedia el
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