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Ancient Greek mythological personifications of pain
This article is about the Greek deity. For the Norwegian company, see
Algea (company) .
Algos Parents Eris
[1] Siblings
In
Greek mythology , Algea (
Ancient Greek : Ἄλγεα ,
lit. 'pain, grief')
[2] is used by
Hesiod in the plural as the personification of pain, both physical and mental. They were the bringers of weeping and tears.
Family
In
Hesiod 's
Theogony , the Algea are represented as the children of
Eris , the goddess of strife.
[3] They were siblings to
Lethe ,
Limos ,
Horkos ,
Ponos and many other
daemons .
[4]
"And hateful Eris bore painful Ponos ("Hardship"),
Lethe ("Forgetfulness") and Limos ("Starvation") and the tearful Algea ("Pains"),
Hysminai ("Battles"),
Makhai ("Wars"),
Phonoi ("Murders"), and
Androktasiai ("Manslaughters");
Neikea ("Quarrels"), Pseudea ("Lies"), Logoi ("Stories"),
Amphillogiai ("Disputes")
Dysnomia ("Anarchy") and
Ate ("Ruin"), near one another,
and
Horkos ("Oath"), who most afflicts men on earth,
Then willing swears a false oath."
[5]
[6]
Notes
^
Hesiod ,
Theogony 227
^ Beekes, s.v. ἄλγεα, p. 62.
^
Hesiod ,
Theogony
227 .
^
Grimal, Pierre ; A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop (1996).
The Dictionary of Classical Mythology . Oxford:
Blackwell Publishing . p. 152.
ISBN
0-631-20102-5 .
^ Caldwell, p. 42 lines 226-232, with the meanings of the names (in parentheses), as given by Caldwell, p. 40 on lines 212–232.
^ Hesiod, Theogony
226–232 . This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
public domain .
References
Beekes, Robert S. P. , Etymological Dictionary of Greek , 2 vols, Leiden,
Brill , 2009.
ISBN
978-90-04-17418-4 .
Caldwell, Richard, Hesiod's Theogony , Focus Publishing/R. Pullins Company (June 1, 1987).
ISBN
978-0-941051-00-2 .
Internet Archive .
Grimal, Pierre, The Dictionary of Classical Mythology , Wiley-Blackwell, 1996.
ISBN
978-0-631-20102-1
Hesiod , Theogony from The Homeric Hymns and Homerica with an English Translation by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, Cambridge, MA.,Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1914.
Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
Greek text available from the same website .
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain :
Schmitz, Leonhard (1870).
"Algos" . In
Smith, William (ed.).
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Vol. 1. p. 131.