Aegis
object · 6 works · 9 mentions · 14 anchored passages
aegis · the aegis · aegis-bearing Zeus · awful aegis · redoubtable aegis · tasseled aegis · terrible aegis · the terrible tasseled aegis
spoken of as
1 expressionthe aegis2 mentions
Theogony (Greek) · Iliad (Greek)
But now, sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis, sing of the company of women.
in the texts
Iliad
Zeus's shield, foretold by Agamemnon as the instrument with which Zeus will overshadow and punish Troy.
The day will surely come when mighty Ilion shall be laid low, with Priam and Priam's people, when the son of Kronos from his high throne shall overshadow them with his awful aegis in punishment of their present treachery.
The Trojan battalions poured over the bridge, and Apollo with his redoubtable aegis led the way.
Take, then, your tasseled aegis, and shake it furiously, so as to set the Achaean heroes in a panic;
Ion
Athena's breastplate, made from the Gorgon's snake-fringed skin after Athena slew it, explaining the Gorgon emblem later found on Ion's baby robe.
A breast-plate of vipers fenced its body.
That Athena wears its skin upon her corslet.
Is it this that Pallas wears, called by men her aegis?
Shield of Heracles
Athena's divine goatskin shield-attribute, depicted on the shield's imagery and wielded by her in the main narrative.
for the goddess bright-eyed Athena put mettle into them by shaking her aegis.
She was like as if she would array a battle, with a spear in her hand, and a golden helmet, and the aegis about her shoulders.
But Athena the daughter of aegis-bearing Zeus came to meet Ares, wearing the dark aegis, and she looked at him with an angry frown and spoke winged words to him.
Theogony
The aegis, the emblematic attribute of Zeus referenced in his recurring epithet.
But now, sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughters of Zeus who holds the aegis, sing of the company of women.
And Leto was joined in love with Zeus who holds the aegis, and bore Apollo and Artemis delighting in arrows, children lovely above all the sons of Heaven.
Now sing the company of goddesses, sweet-voiced Muses of Olympus, daughter of Zeus who holds the aegis,—even those deathless ones who lay with mortal men and bore children like gods.
Hymn 28 to Athena
The aegis is Zeus's divine attribute, used in the hymn to identify him in relation to Athena.
But Athena sprang quickly from the immortal head and stood before Zeus who holds the aegis, shaking a sharp spear:
Hymn 5 to Aphrodite
The aegis is an identifying divine object associated with Zeus's authority.
First is the daughter of Zeus who holds the aegis, bright-eyed Athena;
Yet by Zeus who holds the aegis I beseech you, leave me not to lead a palsied life among men, but have pity on me;
and touching the head of father Zeus who holds the aegis, she, that fair goddess, swear a great oath which has in truth been fulfilled, that she would be a maiden all her days.