The Goddess
deity figure · 6 works · 6 mentions · 9 anchored passages
the goddess · the Goddess · Aphrodite · I am Bhadrā · Pleasure
spoken of as
2 expressionsAphrodite / Pleasure“the goddess”1 mention
Philebus (Greek)
And you your goddess, my friend.
Devī Purāṇa speaker“the Goddess”1 mention
Vīramitrodaya (Sanskrit)
Worshipped in Bhadrā, I will grant all success.
in the texts
Against Timocrates
Unnamed goddess, likely Athena, whose sacred funds are alleged to have been withheld.
When I discovered that he had defrauded the whole commonwealth in the collection of the property-tax and in the manufacture of processional utensils, and that he held and refused to restore a great deal of money belonging to the Goddess, the Heroes, and the State, I proceeded against him with the aid of Euctemon, thinking it a favorable opportunity for doing the State a service, and at the same ti …
Philebus
The goddess whom Philebus calls Aphrodite but whom Socrates says is more truly named Pleasure; treated throughout as the divine patroness of the pleasure doctrine.
And you your goddess, my friend.
and for that reason I wash my hands of it and now call upon the goddess herself to witness that I do so.
We must try, and let us begin with the very goddess who Philebus says is spoken of as Aphrodite but is most truly named Pleasure.
Republic
The unnamed goddess (Bendis) in whose honor the Peiraeus festival, procession, and torchlight race are held.
Do you mean to say, interposed Adeimantus, that you haven’t heard that there is to be a torchlight race this evening on horseback in honor of the Goddess?
I went down yesterday to the Peiraeus with Glaucon, the son of Ariston, to pay my devotions to the Goddess, and also because I wished to see how they would conduct the festival since this was its inauguration.
Vīramitrodaya
The Goddess speaking in first person in the Devī Purāṇa verse, identified with Bhadrā
Worshipped in Bhadrā, I will grant all success.
Hellenica
The unnamed patron goddess of Athens (conventionally Athena), to whom a tenth of confiscated property is dedicated under both the proposed decree and the decree of Cannonus.
and if they be adjudged guilty, that they be punished with death and handed over to the Eleven, and that their property be confiscated and the tenth thereof belong to the goddess.
it provides that if anyone shall wrong the people of Athens, he shall plead his case in fetters before the people, and if he be adjudged guilty, he shall be put to death by being cast into the pit, and his property shall be confiscated and the tenth part thereof shall belong to the goddess.
On Hunting
An unnamed goddess (implicitly the patron deity of hunting) credited with granting Atalanta, Procris and similar women the blessing of loving the chase.
and not men only, but those women also to whom the goddess has given this blessing, Atalanta and Procris and others like them.