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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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HARMONIA , in See also:

Greek See also:

MYTHOLOGY

mythology, according to one See also:

account the daughter of See also:

ARES

Ares and See also:

APHRODITE

Aphrodite, and wife of See also:

CADMUS

Cadmus. When the See also:

government of See also:

Thebes was bestowed upon Cadmus by See also:

ATHENA (the Attic form of the Homeric Athene, also called Athenaia, Pallas Athene, Pallas)

Athena, See also:

ZEUS

Zeus gave him Harmonia to wife. All the gods honoured the See also:

WEDDING

wedding with their presence. Cadmus (or one of the gods) presented the See also:

BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)

bride with a robe and necklace, the See also:

WORK

work of See also:

HEPHAESTUS

Hephaestus. This necklace brought misfortune to all who possessed it. With it Polyneices bribed See also:

ERIPHYLE

Eriphyle to persuade her See also:

HUSBAND

husband See also:

AMPHIARAUS

Amphiaraus to undertake the expedition against Thebes. It led to the See also:

DEATH

death of Eriphyle, of See also:

ALCMAEON

Alcmaeon, of Phegeus and his sons. Even after it had been deposited in the See also:

temple of Athena Pronoia at See also:

DELPHI (the Pytho of Homer and Herodotus; in Boeotian inscriptions BeA4oi, on coins Aa)tg5oi)

Delphi, its baleful See also:

INFLUENCE (Late Lat. influentia, from influere, to flow in)

influence continued. Phayllus, one of the Phocian leaders in the Sacred See also:

War (352 B.C.) carried it off and gave it to his See also:

MISTRESS

mistress. After she had worn it for a See also:

time, her son was seized with madness and set See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire to the See also:

house, and she perished in the flames. According to another account, Harmonia belonged to See also:

SAMOTHRACE (Turk. Semadrek)

Samothrace and was the daughter of Zeus and See also:

ELECTRA ('HMKTpa)

Electra, her See also:

BROTHER

brother Iasion being the founder of the mystic See also:

RITES

rites celebrated on the See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island (Diod. Sic. v.

48). Finally, Harmonia is rationalized as closely allied to Aphrodite Pandemos, the love that unites all See also:

PEOPLE

people, the personification of See also:

order and civic unity, corresponding to the See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

Concordia. See also:

APOLLODORUS

Apollodorus iii. 4-7; Diod. Sic. iv. 65, 66; See also:

PARTHENIUS

Parthenius, Erotica, 25; L. See also:

Preller, Griech. Mythol.; See also:

CRUSIUS, CHRISTIAN AUGUST (1715–1775)

Crusius in See also:

ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher's Lexikon.

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