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An avenging deity or spirit, the masculine personification of Nemesis, frequently evoked in Greek tragedy.
noun - an avenging deity in Greek tragedy
ALASTOR - Alastor (; Ancient Greek: , English translation: "avenger") refers to a number of people and concepts in Greek mythology: Alastor, an epithet of the ...
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An avenging deity or spirit, the masculine personification of Nemesis, frequently evoked in Greek tragedy. |
Usually with capital initial. An avenging demon or god. More generally: any avenger of wrongs committed an agent of retribution. |
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Alastor (; Ancient Greek: , English translation: "avenger") refers to a number of people and concepts in Greek mythology: * Alastor, an epithet of the Greek god Zeus, according to Hesychius of Alexandria and the Etymologicum Magnum, which described him as the avenger of evil deeds, specifically familial bloodshed. As the personification of a curse, it was also a sidekick of the Erinyes. The name is also used, especially by the tragic writers, to designate any deity or demon who avenges wrongs committed by men. In Euripides' play Electra, Orestes questions an oracle who calls upon him to kill his mother, and wonders if the oracle was not from Apollo, but some malicious alastor. There was an altar to Zeus Alastor just outside the city walls of Thasos.By the time of the 4th century BC, alastor in Greek had degraded to a generic type of insult, with the approximate meaning of "scoundrel". * Alastor, son of Neleus and Chloris. When Heracles took Pylos, he killed Alastor and his brothers, e |