Itonia
Sign in to savethumb|Ancient Greek coin with Athena Itonia on the reverse. Itonia, Itonias or Itonis (Gr. ', or ') was an epithet of the Greek goddess Athena worshiped widely in Thessaly and elsewhere. The name was derived from the town of Iton in the south of Phthiotis.
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thumb|Ancient Greek coin with Athena Itonia on the reverse. Itonia, Itonias or Itonis (Gr. ', or ') was an epithet of the Greek goddess Athena worshiped widely in Thessaly and elsewhere. The name was derived from the town of Iton in the south of Phthiotis.
The cult for Athena Itonia associated Athena in some mystical manner with the god of the lower world who is called Hades by Strabo, but in Pausanias, who must be speaking of the same cult, is called Zeus. It may be that Athena Itonia had something of the character which in her primitive worship she had at Athens, and that she was a goddess who fostered the growths of the earth and who therefore had some affinity to the Chthonic deities.
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