- Algos
Algos (
Ancient Greek : polytonic|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. [Hesiod , "Theogony " 227] cite encyclopedia | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | authorlink = | title = Algos | editor = William Smith | encyclopedia =Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 131 | publisher =Little, Brown and Company | location = Boston | year = 1867 | url = http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moa;cc=moa;idno=acl3129.0001.001;q1=demosthenes;size=l;frm=frameset;seq=146;page=root;view=image] "Algos" in Greek is aneuter noun literally meaning "pain". She or he was a sibling toLethe , Limos,Horcus , andPonos . [cite book | last = Grimal | first = Pierre | authorlink = Pierre Grimal | coauthors = A. R. Maxwell-Hyslop | title = The Dictionary of Classical Mythology | publisher =Blackwell Publishing | date = 1996 | location = Oxford | pages = 152 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=iOx6de8LUNAC | doi = | id = | isbn = 0-631-20102-5]References
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