Welcome to our extensive antique jewelry glossary with around 1,500 jewelry related entries.If you feel you are missing an explanation, The horn of plenty is used for body art and at Thanksgiving, as it is a symbol of fertility, fortune and abundance. [4] Gallery [ edit ] David Leeming, The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 13; Robert Parker, Polytheism and Society at Athens (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 422.

Cornucopia motifs appear in some modern literature, such as Terry Pratchett's Wintersmith, and Suzanne Collins's The Hunger Games. For other uses, see Cornucopia (disambiguation). Allegorical depiction of the Roman goddess Abundantia with a cornucopia, by Rubens ( ca. 1630)Maison dite des Cariatides ou Maison Pouffier"[House known as the Caryatids or Maison Pouffier]. pop.culture.gouv.fr (in French) . Retrieved 18 September 2023. Fortuna, would be depicted with the horn of plenty. The cornucopia was also a symbol for a woman's fertility.

Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.87–88, as cited by J. Rufus Fears, "The Cult of Virtues and Roman Imperial Ideology," Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt II.17.2 (1981), p. 821. In Greek mythology, Amalthea raised Zeus on the milk of a goat. In return the god gave Amalthea the goat's horn. It had the power to give to the person inOltean, Radu (2016). Bucureștii Belle Époque (in Romanian). Art Historia. p.58. ISBN 978-973-0-22923-3. possession of it whatever he or she wished for. This gave rise to the legend of the cornucopia. The original depictions were of the goat's horn filled with fruits and flowers: deities, especially In another myth, the cornucopia was created when Heracles (Roman Hercules) wrestled with the river god Achelous and ripped off one of his horns; river gods were sometimes depicted as horned. [2] This version is represented in the Achelous and Hercules mural painting by the American Regionalist artist Thomas Hart Benton. In classical antiquity, the cornucopia ( / ˌ k ɔːr n j ə ˈ k oʊ p i ə, ˌ k ɔːr n ə-, ˌ k ɔːr n u-, ˌ k ɔːr n j u-/), from Latin cornu (horn) and copia (abundance), also called the horn of plenty, was a symbol of abundance and nourishment, commonly a large horn-shaped container overflowing with produce, flowers, or nuts.