Mean

Mean is the goddess who crowns. On the backs of Etruscan mirrors she is the winged figure holding out or settling a wreath on a victor's head, and Hercle is among those she crowns as he is received into the company of the gods. Her name is inscribed beside her in those scenes, which is why she can be recorded as an individual figure rather than an anonymous Victory. There is no cult site, no festival and no story attached to her: she is known by what she does in pictures.

Domains

• victory

Powers

• to set the wreath on the head of the victor

Relations

• ally: HercleCrowns Hercle in the mirror scenes of his triumph and reception among the gods.Etruscan mirrors in which Mean crowns Hercle. (iconographic)

Sources

• Mean is the Etruscan goddess of victory, named on engraved bronze mirrors in the act of crowning the victor, Hercle among them.: Etruscan engraved bronze mirrors naming mean in crowning scenes. (iconographic); Reference discussion of Mean as the Etruscan goddess of victory. (secondary)