Prayer to Eileithyia, Athena
Eileithyia · Athena
Oh! goddess divine, Eileithyia, patroness of women in labour, stay, stay the birth, till I have reached a spot less hallowed than Athene's mount!
Fons · Source
AuthorAristophanes
WorkLysistrata
Section742 ff
Period5th-4th c. BC
Occasioncomic invocation of Eileithyia by a woman feigning labour to flee the Acropolis during Lysistrata's sex-strike
Classificatio · Taxonomy
Culturegreek
Formpersonal
DeitiesEileithyia, Athena
Functionspetition
Spheredomestic