Bia (mythology)
Bia ( Greek Βία "force", "violence") is the personification of violence in Greek mythology . She is the daughter of the titan Pallas and the Styx . Her siblings are Kratos ("power"), Zelos ("zeal") and Nike ("victory"). They are constant companions of Zeus, who granted them this position of honor as thanks for their help in the fight against the titans ( titanomachy ).
It is Bia and Kratos who carry out the judgment of Zeus on the titan Prometheus at Aeschylus , who is to be forged forever by Hephaestus on a rock in the Caucasus .
On the ascent to the Acropolis of Corinth there was a common sanctuary of Bia and Ananke .
literature
- Hans von Geisau : Bia. In: The Little Pauly (KlP). Volume 1, Stuttgart 1964, column 882.
- Konrad Wernicke : Bia 1 . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 379 f.
Web links
- Bia in the Theoi Project
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hesiod Theogony 383ff
- ↑ Hyginus Mythographus Fabulae Introduction
- ^ Libraries of Apollodorus 1.9
- ↑ Aeschylus The Bound Prometheus 12
- ↑ Pausania's description of Greece 2.4.6