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Alastor (???st??, gen .: ???st????; English language|English translation : "avenger") can refer to a number of people and concepts related to Greek mythology :Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Alastor | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 89 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0098.html
Alastor was an epithet of the Greek mythology|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 an epithet of the Erinyes .Citation | last = Rose | first = Herbert Jennings | author-link = H. J. Rose | contribution = Alastor | editor-last = Hornblower | editor-first = Simon | title = Oxford Classical Dictionary | volume = | pages = | publisher = Oxford University Press | place = Oxford | year = 1996 | contribution-url = The name is also used, especially by the tragic writers, to designate any deity or demon who avenges wrongs committed by men. Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias , Description of Greece viii. 24. § 4 Plutarch , De Defectu Oraculorum 13, & c. Aeschylus , Agamemnon (play)|Agamemnon 1479, 1508, The Persians 343 Sophocles , The Trachiniae 1092 Euripides , Phoenician Women 1550, & c. In Euripides ' play Electra (Euripides)|Elecktra , 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 . Euripides , Electra (Euripides)|Elecktra 979 There was an altar to Zeus Alastor just outside the city walls of Thasos .Citation | first = Susan Guettel | last = Cole | author-link = | first2 = | last2 = | author2-link = | editor-last = Herman Hansen | editor-first = Mogens | editor2-last = | editor2-first = | contribution = Civic Cult and Civic Identity | contribution-url = | title = Sources for the Ancient Greek City-State: Symposium August, 24-27 1994 | year = 1994 | pages = 310 | place = Copenhagen | publisher = Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters | url = http://books.google.com/? id=y-c56ta4BKwC | doi = | id = | isbn = 9788773042670
*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, a son of Neleus and Chloris . When Heracles took Pylos , Alastor and his brothers, except Nestor (mythology)|Nestor , were killed by him. Apollodorus , i. 9. § 9 Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes , i. 156 According to Parthenius of Nicaea , he was to be married to Harpalyce (mythology)|Harpalyce , who, however, was taken from him by her father Clymenus . Parthenius of Nicaea , c. 13
Alastor, a Lycia n, who was a companion of Sarpedon , and was slain by Odysseus . Homer , Iliad v. 677 Ovid , Metamorphoses xiii. 257
* Alastorides is a patronymic form given by Homer to Tros, who was probably a son of the Lycian Alastor mentioned above. Homer , Iliad xx. 463
Another, unrelated Alastor is mentioned in the Iliad of Homer . Homer , Iliad viii. 333, xiii. 422
Alastor, in Christianity|Christian demonology , came to be considered a kind of Demonic possession|possessing entity .Citation | last = Sorenson | first = Eric | authorlink = | coauthors = | title = Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament and Early Christianity | publisher = Mohr Siebeck | year = 2002 | location = | pages = 78 | url = http://books.google.com/? id=zh4o4LijeQkC | doi = | id = | isbn = 3-16-147851-7 He was likened to Nemesis (mythology)|Nemesis . The name Alastor was also used as a generic term for a class of evil spirits .
See also
Alastor in popular culture
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