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Alastor

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Alastor (/əˈlæstər, -tɔːr/; Ancient Greek: Ἀλάστωρ, English translation: "avenger"[1]) refers to a number of people and concepts in Greek mythology:[2]

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  1. ^ Graves, Robert (2017). The Greek Myths - The Complete and Definitive Edition. Penguin Books Limited. p. 413. ISBN 9780241983386.
  2. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Alastor", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, p. 89, archived from the original on 2010-12-13, retrieved 2008-06-10
  3. ^ a b Rose, Herbert Jennings (1996), "Alastor", in Hornblower, Simon (ed.), Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press
  4. ^ Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1479, 1508 & The Persians 343; Euripides, Phoenician Women 1550; Sophocles, The Trachiniae 1092; Plutarch, De Defectu Oraculorum 13; Pausanias, 8.24.8
  5. ^ Euripides, Electra 979
  6. ^ Cole, Susan Guettel (1994), "Civic Cult and Civic Identity", in Herman Hansen, Mogens (ed.), Sources for the Ancient Greek City-State: Symposium August, 24-27 1994, Copenhagen: Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, p. 310, ISBN 978-87-7304-267-0
  7. ^ Homer, Odyssey 11.284
  8. ^ Apollodorus, 1.9.9
  9. ^ Scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, 1.156; Apollodorus, 2.7.3
  10. ^ Parthenius, 13 from the Thrax of Euphorion and from Dectadas
  11. ^ Homer, Iliad 5.677; Ovid, Metamorphoses 13.257
  12. ^ Homer, Iliad 10.463
  13. ^ Homer, Iliad 4.295
  14. ^ Homer, Iliad 8.333 & 13.422
  15. ^ Claudian, De Raptu Proserpinae 1.286
  16. ^ Sorenson, Eric (2002), Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament and Early Christianity, Mohr Siebeck, p. 78, ISBN 3-16-147851-7

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