In Greek mythology, the Hysminai (Ancient Greek: Ὑσμῖναι, "Combats" or "Fights") are the personified spirits of battle and hand-to-hand combat. According to Hesiod's Theogony, they are among the offspring of Eris (Strife), born without a father alongside other personifications of conflict. As a collective abstraction, they have no individual identity, embodying instead one of the many harmful consequences thought to spring from discord.
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I.Family
In Hesiod's Theogony, the Hysminai are counted among the children of Eris (Strife), whom she bore alone without a father. Their siblings are likewise personified abstractions of conflict and its consequences, including the Machai (Battles), the Phonoi (Murders), and the Androktasiai (Slaughters).
As a personified abstraction, the Hysminai allegorize the meaning of their own name, representing one of the many harmful things imagined to result from strife and discord.
II.Mythology
The Hysminai have no independent narrative role and appear chiefly within catalogues of war-spirits or as imagery on legendary objects. In Quintus Smyrnaeus' Posthomerica, they are depicted among the figures wrought upon the shield of Achilles, described as ill-sounding goddesses of Combat whose limbs dripped blood and sweat to the ground.
Similar personifications of battle and slaughter are evoked in early epic, including the scenes on the belt of Heracles in Homer's Odyssey and the train of war attending the gods in Greek poetry.