# Assesia

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{{Short description|Cultic epithet of the Greek goddess Athena}}
'''Assesia''' ({{langx|grc|Ἀσσησία}}) was a cultic [epithet](/source/epithet) for the goddess [Athena](/source/Athena) in [Greek mythology](/source/Greek_mythology), derived from the town of [Assesos](/source/Assesos) in [Ionia](/source/Ionia), where she had a temple.<ref>[Herodotus](/source/Herodotus), ''[Histories](/source/Histories_(Herodotus))'' 1.19</ref>

The historian [Herodotus](/source/Herodotus) relates several anecdotes about this aspect of the goddess, as having a temple at Assesos that was accidentally burned down by the forces of the 7th century BCE [Mermnad](/source/List_of_kings_of_Lydia) king [Alyattes I](/source/Alyattes), while his forces were waging war against the [Milesians](/source/Miletus), and burning all their grain.<ref>{{cite book
 | last =Hanson
 | first =Victor Davis
 | authorlink =Victor Davis Hanson
 | title =Warfare and Agriculture in Classical Greece
 | publisher =[University of California Press](/source/University_of_California_Press)
 | date =1998
 | pages =50
 | language =English
 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=Tzki6y9Cxc8C
 | isbn = 9780520215962
 | accessdate=2024-08-18}}</ref> After falling ill, the king consulted the [Pythia](/source/Pythia), who told him no answer would be forthcoming until the temple was rebuilt, which Alyattes did, ultimately building two temples to Athena Assesia.<ref>{{cite book
 | editor-last=Avery
 | editor-first=Catherine B.
 | title =The New Century Handbook of Classical Geography
 | publisher =Appleton-Century-Crofts
 | date =1972
 | pages =208
 | language =English
 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=WQu3AAAAIAAJ
 | isbn = 9780390669308
 | accessdate=2024-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
 | editor-last=Hägg
 | editor-first=Robin
 | title =The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis: Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, Organized by the Swedish Institute at Athens, 16-18 October 1992
 | publisher =The Swedish Institute at Athens
 | date =1996
 | pages =26
 | isbn=978-91-7916-033-3
 | language =English
 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=5nnaAAAAMAAJ
 | accessdate=2024-08-18}}</ref>

The ruin of one of these temples still exists today, and is a significant source of south [Ionia](/source/Ionia)n pottery for modern scholars.<ref>{{cite book
 | last =Papadopoulos
 | first =John K.
 | editor-last1=Papadopoulos
 | editor-first1=John K.
 | editor-last2=Morris
 | editor-first2=Sarah P.
 | title =Ancient Methone, 2003-2013: Excavations by Matthaios Bessios, Athena Athanassiadou, and Konstantinos Noulas
 | chapter=The East Greek Fine Pottery
 | publisher =Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
 | date =2023
 | pages =834–835
 | language =English
 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=z-OyEAAAQBAJ
 | isbn = 9781950446339
 | accessdate=2024-08-18}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
 | last =Miles
 | first =Margaret M.
 | editor-last1=Pieper
 | editor-first1=Christoph
 | editor-last2= Ker
 | editor-first2=James
 | title =Valuing the Past in the Greco-Roman World: Proceedings from the Penn-Leiden Colloquia on Ancient Values VII
 | chapter=Burnt Temples in the Landscape of the Past
 | publisher =[Brill Publishers](/source/Brill_Publishers)
 | series =Mnemosyne: Monographs on Greek and Latin Language and Literature
 | volume =369
 | date =2014
 | pages =114
 | language =English
 | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=UGi7AwAAQBAJ
 | isbn = 9789004274952
 | accessdate=2024-08-18}}</ref>

==References==
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{{DGRBM|author=LS|title= Assesia |volume=1|page=388|url=https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/403}}

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Category:Epithets of Athena

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