Ταυροβόλος

bull-striking, bull-slaughtering

Translated by David Whitehead9 Dec 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

5 words

[sc. An epithet of] Athena.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ταυροβόλος· ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ.

Betacode

*taurobo/los: h( *)aqhna=.

Notes

LSJ s.v. recognises only impersonal applications of this headword, used of particular rites. (Epigraphic documentation is cited; one could add several instances from the Greek Anthology.) But for Athena with this epithet see again under tau 165.

Linked from1 entry

τ165Ταυροπόλονworshipped at Tauris, drawn by bulls, bull-hunter[Meaning] Artemis, because like a bull she goes around everything, as Apollodorus [writes]; Istros in the third [book] of Miscellanies [writes] that [she] drove to every land the bull which had been sent against…

Neighbouring entries

τ159ΤαυρικήTaurike, Tauric territory τ160ΤαυρίωνοςTaurion's τ161Ταυροβόλοςbull-striking, bull-slaughtering τ162Ταυροκέρκουροιbull-kerkouroi τ163ΤαυρομένειονTauromeneion, Tauromenium

Revision history6 revisions · last 27 May 2016

27 May 2016Revised — David Whitehead
7 Jan 2014Revised — David Whitehead
12 Aug 2011expanded note; more keywords — David Whitehead
3 Apr 2010added cross-reference and keyword — Catharine Roth
27 Sep 2004another headword; note — David Whitehead
25 Sep 2004set status — Catharine Roth
9 Dec 2002Translated — David Whitehead