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Alecto (Ancient Greek: Ἀληκτώ, romanized: Alēktṓ, lit. 'Unceasing anger') [ 1 ] is one of the Erinyes or Furies in Greek mythology . Family and description
The Erinyes (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ n i. iː z / ih-RI-nee-eez; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἐρινύες, sg. Ἐρινύς Erinys), [2] also known as the Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, the "Gracious ones") [a] and commonly known in English as the Furies, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
Megaera (/ m ə ˈ dʒ ɪər ə / mə-JEER-ə; Ancient Greek: Μέγαιρα, romanized: Mégaira, lit. 'the jealous one' [1]) is one of the Erinyes, Eumenides or "Furies" in Greek mythology. Bibliotheca Classica states "According to the most received opinions, they were three in number, Tisiphone, "Megaera ... daughter of Nyx and Acheron", [2 ...
Tisiphone [1] (Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, romanized: Tisiphónē, "Avenger of murder"), [2] or Tilphousia, was one of the three Erinyes or Furies in Greek mythology. Her sisters were Alecto and Megaera. [3] They resided in the Greek underworld and ascended to earth in pursuit of the wicked. [2]
Erinyes: (also known as the Furies). In Greek mythology, they were Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, three female personifications of vengeance. They appear and threaten Dante with the head of the Medusa. Inf. IX, 34–72. Erysichthon: Ancient King of Thessaly who cut down a grove of trees sacred to Demeter. Her revenge was to give him insatiable ...
The following is a list of gods, goddesses, and many other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion. Major deities in Greek religion The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes.
They are approached by a villager, who demands that they leave, because that ground is sacred to the Furies, or the Erinyes. Oedipus recognizes this as a sign, for when he received the prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother, Apollo also revealed to him that at the end of his life he would die at a place sacred to the Furies ...
They were the older gods, but not, apparently, as was once thought, the old gods of an indigenous group in Greece, historically displaced by the new gods of Greek invaders. Rather, they were a group of gods, whose mythology at least, seems to have been borrowed from the Near East (see "Near East origins," below). [35]