![]() and among them went bright-eyed Athene, holding the precious aegis which is ageless and immortal: a hundred tassels of pure gold hang fluttering from it, tight-woven each of them, and each the worth of a hundred oxen." "It produced a sound as from myriad roaring dragons ( Iliad, 4.17) and was borne by Athena in battle. The aegis of Athena is referred to in several places in the Iliad. In Greek mythology Īthena's aegis, with Gorgon, here resembles the skin of the serpent who guards the golden fleece (regurgitating Jason) cup by Douris, early fifth century BC ( Vatican Museums) The transition to the meaning "shield" or "goatskin" may have come by folk etymology among a people familiar with draping an animal skin over the left arm as a shield. The original meaning may have been the first, and Ζεὺς Αἰγίοχος Zeus Aigiokhos = "Zeus who holds the aegis" may have originally meant "Sky/Heaven, who holds the thunderstorm". "goatskin coat", from treating the word as meaning "something grammatically feminine pertaining to goat": Greek αἴξ aix ( stem αἰγ- aig-) = "goat", + suffix -ίς -is (stem -ίδ-id-).The shield of a deity as described above.Akin to καταιγίς kataigis, "thunderstorm". "violent windstorm", from the verb ἀίσσω aïssō ( word stem ἀιγ- aïg-) = "I rush or move violently". ![]() The Greek αἰγίς aigis, has many meanings including: The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where the Greek word aegis is applied by extension. The modern concept of doing something "under someone's aegis " means doing something under the protection of a powerful, knowledgeable, or benevolent source. There may be a connection with a deity named Aex or Aix, a daughter of Helios and a nurse of Zeus or alternatively a mistress of Zeus ( Hyginus, Astronomica 2. The aegis ( / ˈ iː dʒ ɪ s/ EE-jis Ancient Greek: αἰγίς aigís), as stated in the Iliad, is a device carried by Athena and Zeus, variously interpreted as an animal skin or a shield and sometimes featuring the head of a Gorgon. ![]() The aegis on the Lemnian Athena of Phidias, represented by a cast at the Pushkin Museum ![]()
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