chthonian
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈkθəʊnɪən/
- (British) IPA: /ˈθəʊnɪən/
- (America) IPA: /ˈkθoʊni.ən/
- (America) IPA: /ˈθʊni.ən/
chthonian (not comparable)
- Pertaining to the underworld; being beneath the earth.
- 1950, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greeks and Their Gods, 1955, Beacon Press, p. 219,
- ...I intend to apply the name chthonian to all gods and spirits of the earth, whether their functions are concerned with agriculture or with the grave and the world beyond, or (as often) with both.
- 2015, Susan Deacy, Gods—Olympian or Chthonic, in Esther Eidinow, Julia Kindt (editors), The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion, page 359 ↗,
- For example, the Oresteia, 'that treasure house of chthonian concepts' (Scullion 1994: 111), categorizes gods in ways that do not match the rigid terms of the foundational scholarship on Olympian versus chthonian deities.
- 1950, W. K. C. Guthrie, The Greeks and Their Gods, 1955, Beacon Press, p. 219,
- French: chthonien
- Russian: хтони́ческий
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