alastor (; , english translation: "avenger") refers to a number of people and concepts in greek mythology: *alastor was an epithet of the greek god zeus, according to hesychius of alexandria and the etymologicum magnum, which described him as the avenger of evil deeds, specifically, familial bloodshed. as the personification of a curse, it was also a sidekick of the erinyes. the name is also used, especially by the tragic writers, to designate any deity or demon who avenges wrongs committed by men.pausanias, description of greece viii. 24. Â§ 4plutarch, de defectu oraculorum 13, &c.aeschylus, agamemnon 1479, 1508, the persians 343sophocles, the trachiniae 1092euripides, phoenician women 1550, &c. in euripides' play elecktra, orestes questions an oracle who calls upon him to kill his mother, and wonders if the oracle was not from apollo, but some malicious alastor.euripides, elecktra 979 there was an altar to zeus alastor just outside the city walls of thasos. **by the time of the 4th century bc, alastor in greek had degraded to a generic type of insult, with the approximate meaning of "scoundrel". *alastor, a son of neleus and chloris. when heracles took pylos, alastor and his brothers, except nestor, were killed by him.bibliotheca i. 9. Â§ 9scholiast on apollonius of rhodes, i. 156 according
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