Megaera (Greek: Μέγαιρα, "the jealous one") is one of the Erinyes in Greek Mythology. She is the cause of jealousy and envy, and causes people to commit crimes, especially marital infidelity. Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him. Two Furies, from an ancient vase. ... The bust of Zeus found at Otricoli (Sala Rotonda, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican) Greek mythology is the body of stories belonging to the Ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. ... Look up infidelity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In Greek mythology the Erinyes (the Romans called them the Furies) were female personifications of vengeance. ... Tisiphone can mean:- Two figures in Greek mythology:- One of the Erinyes (or Furies). ... Uranus is the Latinized form of Ouranos (), the Greek word for sky. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...
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In modern French (mégère) and Portuguese (megera), derivatives of this name are used to designate a jealous or spiteful woman. The Italian word megera indicates an evil and/or ugly woman.
References in popular culture
Megaera is the name of the gorgon in the 1964 film The Gorgon, although this seems a misunderstanding of her role in Greek mythology.
In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Megaera is a summoned spirit.
In Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day", the historical HMS Megaera is described as "...a frigate which had been wrecked on Amsterdam Island nearly thirty years before." (107)
This article is about the Greek mythological monster. ... The Gorgon is a 1964 British horror film directed by Terence Fisher for Hammer. ...
The whole megaera have to be divided into an analogous megaera of the other living creatures (a natural one) and a digital megaera (anthropical one) which has artificial, digital properties beside its own analogous properties.
The megaera biotica of the Earth took place between 340-350°C and 240-250°C, meaning that the distance is measured in heat units (temperature).
The megaera absorbs the energy of terrestrial radiation, but the output of this energy is so low that it is not enough for a digital megaera.
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