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Adamant

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A proverbially unbreakable stone or metal of Greek and later poetic speech. Not diamond as a gem-market stone and not every hard rock.

Also known as adamantine

Hellenic religion

  • Adamant appears in Hellenic religion.

    Hesiod’s Theogony has Gaia make a sickle of adamant for Cronus. A named unbreakable material in that cosmogony, not diamond as a gem-market stone and not orichalcum.

    from Hesiod · Theogony, c. 700 BCE

    appears in · sourced · documented

Roman religion

  • Adamant appears in Roman religion.

    Virgil’s Aeneid Book 6 seats adamantine gates and columns among the fortification of Tartarus in the underworld descent. A named adamant in that Roman katabasis, not diamond as gemstone padding and not the Hesiod adamant row restated as this edge.

    from Virgil · Aeneid, 19 BCE (unfinished at the poet’s death)

    appears in · sourced · documented

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