| LC control no. | no2021077917 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Momos (Greek deity) |
| Variant(s) | Momus (Greek deity) Μωμος (Greek deity) |
| Associated country | Greece |
| Special note | Non-Latin script reference not evaluated. |
| Found in | Quero, D. Momus philosophe, 1995. Oxford classical dictionary (4th ed.) online, June 29, 2021 (Momos; Μωμος = Mōmos; fault-finding personified, a literary figure, hardly mythological (though he occurs in Hesiod, Theog. 214, among the children of Night, see Nyx) and quite divorced from cult) Brill's New Pauly online, June 29, 2021 (Momos; Μωμος = Mōmos; Greek personification of censoriousness, son of Nyx/Night) Doubting the divine in early modern Europe, 2018: t.p. (Momus) Wikipedia, 30 April 2019: Momus (he was in Greek mythology the personification of satire and mockery; during the Renaissance several literary works used him as a mouthpiece for their criticism of tyranny, while others made him a critic of contemporary society; on stage he finally became the figure of harmless fun) |
| Invalid LCCN | sh 96003870 nb2019009165 |
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