Prophasis

Greek goddess

In Greek mythology, Prophasis (Ancient Greek: Πρόφασις) was the personification of excuse.^[1] According to Pindar, she was the daughter of "late-thinking" Epimetheus.^[2]

Note

1. Race, n. 2 to line 29, p. 311.
2. Pindar, Pythian 5.28–9 (pp. 310, 311).

References

• Pindar, Olympian Odes. Pythian Odes, edited and translated by William H. Race, Loeb Classical Library No. 56, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-674-99564-2. Online version at Harvard University Press.