Galaxy/The codex of Alecto (Erinyes)

One of the three named Erinyes — Alecto, Tisiphone and Megaera — whom Apollodorus and Hyginus count among the Furies born from the castrated sky's blood on Earth.1

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Apollodorus names Alecto first among the Furies who rose when the bloody drops of flowing blood from the castrated Uranus fell upon Gaia — the same grim birth Hesiod assigns the Erinyes beside the Giants and the ash-tree Meliae. Hyginus's genealogical preface likewise lists Alecto, Megaera and Tisiphone among the offspring of Aether and Terra, registering a rival parentage on topic `erinyes-parentage`. The collective node `erinyes` holds the chthonic office of the three; this node is the individual named in both rolls.2

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BEYOND THE POETS

How the centuries since have seen Alecto (Erinyes) — art, artifacts and echoes.

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