In Greek mythology, the Androktasiai ( ('Manslaughters', 'Manslayings', 'Slayings of Men'), from the plural of ) are collectively the personification of the slaughter of men in battle. The Androktasiai are named in line 228 of Hesiod's Theogony, which lists four personified plural abstractions, the Hysminai (Battles), the Machai (Wars), the Phonoi (Murders), and the Androktasiai, as being among the several offspring of Eris (Strife):
In Greek mythology, the Androktasiai ( ('Manslaughters', 'Manslayings', 'Slayings of Men'), from the plural of ) are collectively the personification of the slaughter of men in battle. The Androktasiai are named in line 228 of Hesiod's Theogony, which lists four personified plural abstractions, the Hysminai (Battles), the Machai (Wars), the Phonoi (Murders), and the Androktasiai, as being among the several offspring of Eris (Strife):
The nearly identical line, listing the same four abstractions (without capitalizations, and with different case endings), in the same order, occurs in Homer's Odyssey, where Odysseus describes the decorations on Heracles' golden belt:
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).