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Eirene

 
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Eirene with the infant Ploutos: Roman copy after Kephisodotos' votive statue, c. 370BCE, in the Agora, Athens

Eirene, or Irene (Εἰρήνη pronounced Ei-'ree-nee; Greek for peace; the Roman equivalent was Pax), one of the Horae, was the personification of peace, and was depicted in art as a beautiful young woman carrying a cornucopia, scepter and a torch or rhyton.

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