📖 About Eirene
The original Ancient Greek form of Irene meaning 'peace,' borne by a goddess of the Horae and deeply rooted in classical Athenian culture.
🔀 Variants & Related Names
⭐ Famous People
- Irene of Athens — Byzantine empress who ruled as regent and then sole ruler (797-802), the first woman to reign as emperor of the Roman Empire in her own right
- Eirene (goddess) — Greek goddess personifying peace, one of the Horae, famously depicted in Kephisodotos' sculpture holding the infant Ploutos
- Irene Papas — Greek actress and singer who became an international star through films like 'Zorba the Greek' and 'The Guns of Navarone'
- Irène Joliot-Curie — French scientist who won the 1935 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie