Eleos
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In ancient Athens, Eleos (Ancient Greek m.) was the personification of compassion. Pausanias described her as "among all the gods the most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes."
In ancient Athens, Eleos (Ancient Greek m.) was the personification of compassion. Pausanias described her as "among all the gods the most useful to human life in all its vicissitudes." ==Notes== Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. ISBN 0-674-99135-4. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website. Bloch, René, "Eleos", in Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Antiquity, Volume 4, Cyr – Epy, edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider, Brill, 2004. . Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project. Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W.H.S. Jones, Litt.D., and H.A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. . Online version at the Perseus Digital Library Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library. Statius, Thebaid translated by John Henry Mozley. Loeb Classical Library. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
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