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Azesia

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Azesia or Azosia (Ancient Greek: Ἀζησία) was a cultic epithet of one or more Greek goddesses, or in some cases was possibly a distinct goddess. Different sources disagree on who it was an epithet of exactly: Hesychius of Alexandria wrote that this was an epithet of Demeter, while the Byzantine encyclopedia known as the Suda describes it as an epithet of Persephone. The playwright Sophocles apparently referred to Demeter as "Azesia" in one of his lost plays. At the same time, the name features in a number of ancient Greek proverbs clearly intending to mean Persephone. It was possibly simply a variant name of Auxesia.