Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Ilithuia

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Canonical name
Ilithuia
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Deity
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
The source explicitly presents one singular childbirth goddess, distinct in scope from the inherited collective Eilithuiae.

Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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Claims

2
·Direct

Ilithuia, goddess of childbirth pains, brings Eudorus into the light of day.

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“When Ilithuia goddess of the pains of child-birth brought him to the light of day, and he saw the face of the sun”
·Hypothetical

Jove describes Ilithuia as a helper of labouring women who will bring a male child into the world that day.

See evidence text
“an Ilithuia, helper of women who are in labour, bring a man child into the world”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Direct
“Ilithuia goddess of the pains of child-birth”
·Reported
“an Ilithuia, helper of women who are in labour”

Passage preview

Book 16 · Passage 9

Fifty ships had noble Achilles brought to Troy, and in each there was a crew of fifty oarsmen. Over these he set five captains whom he could trust, while he was himself commander over them all. Menesthius of the gleaming corslet, son to the river Spercheius that streams from heaven, was captain of the first company. Fair Polydora daughter of Peleus bore him to ever-flowing Spercheius—a woman mated with a god—but he was called son of Borus son of Perieres, with whom his mother was living as his wedded wife, and who gave great wealth to gain her. The second company was led by noble Eudorus, son to an unwedded woman. Polymele, daughter of Phylas the graceful dancer, bore him; the mighty slayer of Argos was enamoured of her as he saw her among the singing women at a dance held in honour of Diana the rushing huntress of the golden arrows; he therefore—Mercury, giver of all good—went with her into an upper chamber, and lay with her in secret, whereon she bore him a noble son Eudorus, singularly fleet of foot and in fight valiant. When Ilithuia goddess of the pains of child-birth brought him to the light of day, and he saw the face of the sun, mighty Echecles son of Actor took the mother to wife, and gave great wealth to gain her, but her father Phylas brought the child up, and took care of him, doting as fondly upon him as though he were his own son. The third company was led by Pisander son of Maemalus, the finest spearman among all the Myrmidons next to Achilles’ own comrade Patroclus. The old knight Phoenix was captain of the fourth company, and Alcimedon, noble son of Laerceus of the fifth.