Xoanon

Word XOANON
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈzəʊ.ə.nɒn/

Definitions and meanings of "Xoanon"

What do we mean by xoanon?

A wooden statue used as a cult image in Ancient Greece.

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The word "xoanon" in example sentences

The image borne in procession was clearly the xoanon which was brought by Pegasus from ❋ Various (N/A)

Pausanias tells us [151] that the xoanon brought from Eleutherae was in one of the two temples in the theatre-precinct, while the other contained the chryselephantine statue of Alcamenes. ❋ Various (N/A)

Pausanias 'use of the plural in τεταγμέναις ημέραις is excellent authority that the temple of the xoanon was opened at least on more than one day of every year. ❋ Various (N/A)

Here was the precinct containing two temples of Dionysus, in the older of which was the xoanon [132] brought from Eleutherae by Pegasus. ❋ Various (N/A)

It is also borne out by another significant and interesting fact -- that the next image to be introduced, that of Diana in the temple on the Aventine, was a copy of the [Greek: xoanon] of Artemis at Massilia, itself a copy of the famous one at ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

The word for wooden statue is [Greek: xoanon] ξόανον which is sometimes simply translated statue. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (1839)

The temple was celebrated as containing an ancient statue of Diana, the oldest or almost the oldest representation of a deity in human form known at Rome, which was a copy of a rude image of Artemis at Massilia, of the type of the famous [Greek: xoanon] of the Ephesian Artemis. [ ❋ W. Warde Fowler (1884)

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