Phonoi
The Phonoi ( ancient Greek Φόνοι , singular phonos , Φόνος murder ) are personifications of murder in Greek mythology .
In Hesiod's theogony , the Phonoi are children of Eris , the goddess of discord; their siblings are also personifications of negative terms. In Aeschylus ' play Seven Against Thebes , Amphiaraos describes his opponent Tydeus as an admirer of Phonos, since he sees him as the cause of the war. In Quintus of Smyrna , Phonos appears alongside Eris and Kydoimos , the personification of the noise of battle, as actively involved in the fighting of the Trojan War .
literature
- Otto Höfer : Phonos . In: Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (Hrsg.): Detailed lexicon of Greek and Roman mythology . Volume 3.2, Leipzig 1909, Col. 2423 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Phonoi in the Theoi Project (English)
