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by Micha F. Lindemans

The Greek personified goddess of peace and wealth. Irene was portrayed as a young woman with a cornucopia, scepter, and torch or rhyton. She is one of the Horae. Famous is the marble statue of Cephisodotus (ca. 380 BCE), which shows Irene with Plutus on her arm.