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Algos

Ἄλγος

(Ἄλγος), is used by Hesiod (Hes. Th. 227) in the plural, as the personification of sorrows and griefs, which are there represented as the daughters of Eris.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.