Algos

Algea (Ancient Greek: Ἄλγεα; singular: Ἄλγος) is used by Hesiod in the plural as the personification of sorrows and griefs, which are there represented as the daughters of Eris, Greek goddess of strife.[1]

Algos in Greek is a neuter noun literally meaning "pain". She or he was a sibling to Lethe, Limos, Horkos, and Ponos.[2]

The name is related to the word suffix '-algia' denoting a painful condition.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 227
  2. ↑ Grimal, Pierre; A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop (1996). The Dictionary of Classical Mythology. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. p. 152. ISBN 0-631-20102-5.
  3. ↑ Etymology online

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Leonhard Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Algos". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. p. 131. 


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