Megaera

"Jealous one." One of the three Erinyes. Her name is said to derive from μεγαίρω, I hate, envy, so far as to persecute with hate and envy.1 According to others, her name is a contraction of μεγάλη, big, and ἔρις, strife.2

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References

Notes

  1. Vossius. De Theologia Gentili viii, 18.
  2. Fulgentius. Mythology, i, 6.

Sources

  • Aken, Dr. A.R.A. van. (1961). Elseviers Mythologische Encyclopedie. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
  • Cornutus. De Natura Deorum, 10.
  • Virgil. Aeneid xii, 846.