Mother of the Gods
deity figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the Mother of the Gods · Cybele · Mother-goddess · the Mother of the gods · the mother of the gods
in the texts
Against Timarchus
A goddess (identified with Cybele) whose altar in the Athenian marketplace serves as a place of sanctuary where Pittalacus seeks refuge.
The next day Pittalacus, exceeding angry over the affair, comes without his cloak to the marketplace and seats himself at the altar of the Mother of the Gods.
Against Aristogeiton I
The goddess whose witness and sanctuary are invoked in the closing appeal.
Lycurgus did well to call Athena and the Mother of the gods to witness.
How will you make your way to the Sanctuary of the Mother-goddess, if you wish to do so?
Exordia
The Mother of the Gods, named among the deities to whom the speaker's commission reports having sacrificed favorably.
We have also sacrificed to Persuasion and to the Mother of the Gods and to Apollo, and here also we had favorable omens.
Orations
Goddess (Cybele) credited as the source of the rustic woman's prophetic gift.
and that she had a gift of prophecy given her by the Mother of the Gods, and that all the herdsmen nearby and the farmers consulted her concerning the produce of their crops and the breeding and safety of their flocks.
On the Steadfastness of the Wise Man
Deity (Cybele, associated with Mount Ida) invoked by Antisthenes as a parallel to his own foreign-born mother.
he answered that the mother of the gods, too, was from Mount Ida.
Characters
A goddess (Cybele) to whom the presidents sacrifice at the festival of the Galaxia, an occasion the petty-ambitious man uses for self-display.
"Men of Athens, we presidents have sacrificed to the Mother of the Gods the rites of the Galaxia, and the offerings are favourable;