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In Hesiod's Theogony, the Algea are represented as the children of Eris, the goddess of strife. [2] They were siblings to Lethe, Limos, Horkos, Ponos and many other personifications. [3] "And hateful Eris bore painful Ponos ("Hardship"), Lethe ("Forgetfulness") and Limos ("Starvation") and the tearful Algea ("Pains"),
The Greek word κήρ means "the goddess of death" or "doom" [2] [3] and appears as a proper noun in the singular and plural as Κήρ and Κῆρες to refer to divinities. Homer uses Κῆρες in the phrase κήρες θανάτοιο, "Keres of death". By extension the word may mean "plague, disease" and in prose "blemish or defect".
Pandion I, a king of Athens. Pandion II, a king of Athens. Peleus, king of the Myrmidons and father of Achilles; he sailed with the Argonauts and participated in the Calydonian boar hunt. Pelias, a king of Iolcus and usurper of Aeson's rightful throne. Pelops, a king of Pisa and founder of the House of Atreus.
v. t. e. In Greek mythology, Oizys (/ ˈoʊɪzɪs /; Ancient Greek: Ὀϊζύς, romanized: Oïzús, lit. 'misery' [1]), or Oezys, is the personification of pain or distress. [2] In Hesiod 's Theogony, Oizys is one of the offspring of Nyx (Night), produced without the assistance of a father. [3] According to the Roman authors Cicero and Hyginus ...
Ate (mythology) In Greek mythology, Ate (Ancient Greek: Ἄτη, romanized: Átē, lit. 'Delusion, Recklessness, Folly, Ruin') [1] is the personification of moral blindness and error, and the goddess of mischief and rash actions. She could blind the mind of both gods and men leading them astray. Ate was banished from Olympus by Zeus for ...
Hesiod's Theogony, (c. 700 BCE) which could be considered the "standard" creation myth of Greek mythology, [1] tells the story of the genesis of the gods. After invoking the Muses (II.1–116), Hesiod says the world began with the spontaneous generation of four beings: first arose Chaos (Chasm); then came Gaia (the Earth), "the ever-sure foundation of all"; "dim" Tartarus (the Underworld), in ...
t. e. In Greek mythology, Dike or Dice[1] (/ ˈdaɪkiː / or / ˈdaɪsiː /; [2] Greek: Δίκη, Díkē, 'justice, custom') is the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement as a transcendent universal ideal or based on immemorial custom, in the sense of socially enforced norms and conventional rules.
Asclepius (/ æsˈkliːpiəs /; Greek: Ἀσκληπιός Asklēpiós [asklɛːpiós]; Latin: Aesculapius) is a hero and god of medicine in ancient Greek religion and mythology. He is the son of Apollo and Coronis, or Arsinoe, or of Apollo alone. Asclepius represents the healing aspect of the medical arts; his daughters, the "Asclepiades", are ...