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22-512: Egis or EGIS may refer to: An alternative spelling for aegis Egyptian General Intelligence Service , the intelligence agency of Egypt Egis Group , a French engineering and consulting group Erieye Ground Interface Segment, a military software package which is part of the Erieye radar system See also [ edit ] All pages with titles containing Egis Topics referred to by

44-514: A border of snakes, usually also bearing the Gorgon head, the gorgoneion . In some pottery it appears as a tasselled cover over Athena's dress. It is sometimes represented on the statues of Roman emperors, heroes, and warriors, and on coins, cameos and vases. A vestige of that appears in a portrait of Alexander the Great in a fresco from Pompeii dated to the first century BC, which shows the image of

66-524: A grateful Perseus . In a similar interpretation, Aex, a daughter of Helios , represented as a great fire-breathing chthonic serpent similar to the Chimera , was slain and flayed by Athena , who afterwards wore its skin, the aegis, as a cuirass ( Diodorus Siculus iii. 70), or as a chlamys . The Douris cup shows that the aegis was represented exactly as the skin of the great serpent, with its scales clearly delineated. John Tzetzes says that aegis

88-641: A hundred oxen." Virgil imagines the Cyclopes in Hephaestus ' forge, who "busily burnished the aegis Athena wears in her angry moods—a fearsome thing with a surface of gold like scaly snake-skin, and the linked serpents and the Gorgon herself upon the goddess's breast—a severed head rolling its eyes", furnished with golden tassels and bearing the Gorgoneion ( Medusa 's head) in the central boss. Some of

110-511: A rough and shaggy goatskin that has been firmly established in literary texts and iconography by H.G. Güterbock, was a source of the aegis. Mount Ida In Greek mythology , two sacred mountains are called Mount Ida , the "Mountain of the Goddess": Mount Ida in Crete , and Mount Ida in the ancient Troad region of western Anatolia (in modern-day Turkey ), which was also known as

132-704: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Aegis The modern concept of doing something "under someone's aegis " means doing something under the protection of a powerful, knowledgeable, or benevolent source. The word aegis is identified with protection by a strong force with its roots in Greek mythology and adopted by the Romans ; there are parallels in Norse mythology and in Egyptian mythology as well, where

154-730: The Phrygian Ida in classical antiquity and is mentioned in the Iliad of Homer and the Aeneid of Virgil . Both are associated with the mother goddess in the deepest layers of pre-Greek myth, in that Mount Ida in Anatolia was sacred to Cybele , who is sometimes called Mater Idaea ("Idaean Mother"), while Rhea , often identified with Cybele, put the infant Zeus to nurse with Amaltheia at Mount Ida in Crete. Thereafter, his birthplace

176-509: The Attic vase-painters retained an archaic tradition that the tassels had originally been serpents in their representations of the aegis. When the Olympian deities overtook the older deities of Greece and she was born of Metis (inside Zeus who had swallowed the goddess) and "re-born" through the head of Zeus fully clothed, Athena already wore her typical garments. When the Olympian shakes

198-537: The Aegis is the breastplate of Zeus , and was "awful to behold". However, Zeus is normally portrayed in classical sculpture holding a thunderbolt or lightning, bearing neither a shield nor a breastplate. In some versions, Zeus watched Athena and Triton's daughter, Pallas , compete in a friendly mock battle involving spears. Not wanting his daughter to lose, Zeus flapped his aegis to distract Pallas, whom Athena accidentally impaled. Zeus apologized to Athena by giving her

220-637: The Anatolian Mount Ida , Zeus was said to have abducted Ganymede to Olympus . The topmost peak is Gargarus , mentioned in the Iliad . Zeus was located in the Altar of Zeus (near Adatepe, Ayvacık ) during the Trojan War . The modern Turkish name for Mount Ida, Turkey, is Kaz Dağı, pronounced [kaz daːɯ] . In the Aeneid , a shooting star falls onto the mountain in answer to

242-637: The Greek title Meter Theon Idaia ("Mother of the Gods, from Mount Ida"). Proclus considered it as the "mount of the Ideas ", whence its etymology. Crete 's Mount Ida is the island's highest summit, sacred to the Goddess Rhea , and wherein lies the legendary Idaean cave ( Ἰδαίον ἅντρον )), in which baby Zeus was concealed from his father Cronus . It is one of a number of caves believed to have been

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264-436: The Greek word aegis is applied by extension. The Greek αἰγίς aigis has many meanings, including: The original meaning may have been the first, and Ζεὺς Αἰγίοχος Zeus Aigiokhos = "Zeus who holds the aegis" may have originally meant "Sky/Heaven, who holds the thunderstorm". The transition to the meaning "shield" or "goatskin" may have come by folk etymology among a people familiar with draping an animal skin over

286-470: The aegis in its Libyan sense had been a shamanic pouch containing various ritual objects, bearing the device of a monstrous serpent-haired visage with tusk-like teeth and a protruding tongue which was meant to frighten away the uninitiated. In this context, Graves identifies the aegis as clearly belonging first to Athena. One current interpretation is that the Hittite sacral hieratic hunting bag ( kursas ),

308-558: The aegis, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are struck down with fear. "Aegis-bearing Zeus", as he is in the Iliad , sometimes lends the fearsome aegis to Athena . In the Iliad when Zeus sends Apollo to revive the wounded Hector , Apollo, holding the aegis, charges the Achaeans, pushing them back to their ships drawn up on the shore. According to Edith Hamilton 's Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes ,

330-512: The aegis; Athena then named herself Pallas Athena in tribute to her late friend. Classical Greece interpreted the Homeric aegis usually as a cover of some kind borne by Athena. It was supposed by Euripides ( Ion , 995) that the aegis borne by Athena was the skin of the slain Gorgon , yet the usual understanding is that the Gorgoneion was added to the aegis, a votive offering from

352-507: The birthplace or hiding place of Zeus . The Kouretes , a band of mythical warriors, undertook to dance their wild, noisy war dances in front of the cave, so that the clamour would keep Cronus from hearing the infant's crying. On the flank of this mountain is the Amari Valley , the site of expansion by the ancient settlement at Phaistos . Its modern name is Psiloritis . The surrounding area and mountain used to be thickly wooded. From

374-640: The head of a woman on his armor that resembles the Gorgon. Herodotus thought he had identified the source of the aegis in ancient Libya , which was always a distant territory of ancient magic for the Greeks. "Athene's garments and aegis were borrowed by the Greeks from the Libyan women, who are dressed in exactly the same way, except that their leather garments are fringed with thongs, not serpents." Robert Graves in The Greek Myths (1955) asserts that

396-407: The left arm as a shield. The aegis of Athena is referred to in several places in the Iliad . "It produced a sound as from myriad roaring dragons ( Iliad , 4.17) and was borne by Athena in battle ... and among them went bright-eyed Athene, holding the precious aegis which is ageless and immortal: a hundred tassels of pure gold hang fluttering from it, tight-woven each of them, and each the worth of

418-466: The name recalling the mountain worship which was a feature of the Minoan mother goddess religion. The name is related to that of the nymph Idaea , who, according to Diodorus Siculus , was the mother of the ten Kuretes . Idaea was also an epithet of Cybele . The Romans knew Cybele as Magna Mater ("Great Mother"), or as Magna Mater deorum Idaea ("great Idaean mother of the gods"), equivalent to

440-405: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Egis . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Egis&oldid=1179377593 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

462-471: Was sacred to Zeus, the king and father of Greek gods and goddesses. The term Ida (Ἴδη) is of unknown origin. Instances of i-da in Linear A probably refer to the mountain in Crete. Three inscriptions bear just the name i-da-ma-te ( AR Zf 1 and 2, and KY Za 2), and may refer to mount Ida or to the mother goddess of Ida ( Ἰδαία μάτηρ). In Iliad (Iliad, 2.821), Ἵδη (Ida) means "wooded hill",

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484-561: Was the skin of the monstrous giant Pallas whom Athena overcame and whose name she attached to her own. In a late rendering by Gaius Julius Hyginus ( Poetical Astronomy ii. 13), Zeus is said to have used the skin of a pet goat owned by his nurse Amalthea ( aigis "goat-skin") which suckled him in Crete , as a shield when he went forth to do battle against the Titans . The aegis appears in works of art sometimes as an animal's skin thrown over Athena's shoulders and arms, occasionally with

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