Hecate
Also known as: Hecate Epipurgidia · Role: goddess · First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 43
In Book 1, Chapter 43, Iphigenia was transformed into Hecate by the will of Artemis.
In Book 2, Chapter 22, Hecate was represented in statues by Scopas, Polycletus and Naucydes. In Chapter 30, a wooden statue of Hecate by Myron stood in a sanctuary whose rites were said to have been introduced by Orpheus; Alcamenes was described as seemingly the first to make her statue with three heads and three bodies.
Relationship record
Life events
- Iphigenia was transformed into Hecate by Artemis.(Book 1 · Chapter 43)
Book 1 · Chapter 43
- with Iphigenia (Iphigenia was said to be transformed into Hecate.) “Hesiod in his Catalogue of Women describes Iphigenia as not dying, but being changed into Hecate by the will of Artemis.”
- with Artemis (Artemis wills the transformation.) “Hesiod in his Catalogue of Women describes Iphigenia as not dying, but being changed into Hecate by the will of Artemis.”
Book 2 · Chapter 22
- with Scopas (Scopas made a statue of Hecate.) “the statue is the work of Scopas”
- with Polycletus (interaction) “two brazen statues of Hecate, one by Polycletus”
- with Naucydes (Naucydes made the other statue of Hecate.) “the other by his brother Naucydes the son of Mothon”
Book 2 · Chapter 30
- with Orpheus (Orpheus introduced the rites of Hecate.) “saying that Orpheus the Thracian introduced those rites”
- with Myron (Myron made the statue of Hecate.) “containing a wooden statue of Hecate by Myron”
- with Alcamenes (Alcamenes made a statue of Hecate.) “Alcamenes as it seems to me was the first who made the statue of Hecate with three heads and three bodies”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.