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Pronaea

Προνιάα

(Προνιάα), a surname of Athena, under which she had a chapel at Delphi, in front of the temple of Apollo. (Hdt. 1.92; Aeschyl. Eum. 21; Paus. 9.10.2.) Pronaus also occurs as a surname of Hermes. (Paus. l.c.)

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.