Megaera
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Megaera | |
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Goddess of jealousy and envy | |
Member of The Erinyes | |
Personal information | |
Parents | Uranus or Nyx |
Siblings | Alecto and Tisiphone |
Megaera (
In other versions, she and her sisters, as well as the Meliae, were born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.[4]
In modern French (mégère), Portuguese (megera), Modern Greek (μέγαιρα), Italian (megera), Polish (megiera), Russian (мегера), Ukrainian (меґера) and Czech (megera), this name denotes a jealous or spiteful woman. She is not to be confused with
Cultural depictions
Minor planet 464 Megaira is named in her honour.[5]
The 1964 Hammer horror film The Gorgon revolves around the re-emergence of Megaera in a Central European village circa 1910.
Magaera is one of the main characters in the
Megaera is a major character in the video game Hades. She is a boss and a potential romance partner to Zagreus, the main character.
Megaera is one of the three antagonists in the video game God of War: Ascension where she is portrayed as a deformed humanoid with spider like appendages.
See also
- Family tree of the Greek gods
- Shrew (archetype)
References
- ^ Related to μεγαίρω "to grudge, envy" from Proto-Indo-European *meǵh2- "great" (see Robert S. P. Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, Brill, 2009, p. 917).
- ^ Lamprière's Classical Dictionary of Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors, 1949, p. 366
- ^ Lamprière's Classical Dictionary of Proper Names mentioned in Ancient Authors, 1949, p. 234
- ISBN 9780140171990.
- ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7.