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According to Hesiod, Alecto was the daughter of Gaea fertilized by the blood spilled from Uranus when Cronus castrated him. She is the sister of Tisiphone and Megaera.These three Furies had snakes for hair and blood dripped from their eyes, while their wings were those of bats. [2]
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.
In 2013's God of War: Ascension, Tisiphone appears as one of the secondary antagonists, voiced by Debi Mae West. Tisiphone was one of the Furies and the sister of Alecto and Megaera, and possessed shape-shifting powers. In Gods of Olympus, she is portrayed as someone with icy abilities. She wields an icy longsword, similar to her sister, Alecto ...
Lyssa (/ ˈ l ɪ s ə / LEE-sə; Ancient Greek: Λύσσα, romanized: Lússa, lit. 'rage, rabies'), also called Lytta ( / ˈ l ɪ t ə / ; Ancient Greek : Λύττα , romanized : Lútta ) by the Athenians, is a minor goddess in Greek mythology , the spirit of rage , fury, [ 2 ] and rabies in animals.
But, according to Kerényi, Hesychius' definition of zagre, "proves that the name contains the root zoë and zoön", the Greek words for "life" and "Living thing", [7] and according to West "the vocalism, Zā- for Zō-, points to a Doric or North-west Greek home for the god".
Athamas sired several children by his first wife, the goddess Nephele, and his other wives Ino and Themisto. [4] Nephele first bore to him twins, a son Phrixus and a daughter Helle; [5] and also a second son, Makistos. [6] [7] He subsequently married Ino, daughter of Cadmus, with whom he had two children: Learches and Melicertes. [5]
Typhon (/ ˈ t aɪ f ɒ n,-f ən /; Ancient Greek: Τυφῶν, romanized: Typhôn, [tyːpʰɔ̂ːn]), also Typhoeus (/ t aɪ ˈ f iː ə s /; Τυφωεύς, Typhōeús), Typhaon (Τυφάων, Typháōn) or Typhos (Τυφώς, Typhṓs), was a monstrous serpentine giant and one of the deadliest creatures in Greek mythology.
Clash of the Gods is a one-hour weekly mythology television series that premiered on August 3, 2009 on the History Channel. The program covers many of the ancient Greek and Norse Gods , monsters and heroes including Hades , Hercules , Medusa , Minotaur , Odysseus and Zeus .