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Significance
Achlys
According to the greek poet Hesiod, Achlys was the personification of the misery and sadness, the clouding over the eyes preceding death. This is how he presented her on "The Shield of Heracles".
Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, (Greek epic C8th or C7th B.C.) :
"And beside them [the Keres (Deaths) and the Moirai (Fates) on the battlefield] was standing Akhlys (Achlys), dismal and dejected, green and pale, dirty-dry, fallen in on herself with hunger, knee-swollen, and the nails were grown long on her hands, and from her nostrils the drip kept running, and off her cheeks the blood dribbled to the ground, and she stood there, grinning forever, and the dust that had gathered and lay in heaps on her shoulders was muddy with tears." |
Thalia
In greek mythology her name was used to express "flourishing", a term that was later also used in positive psychology. Thalia was the muse of idillyc poetry, and it was said that any mortal blessed by the muse could use the beauty of their song or the grace of their dance to heal the sick and provide confort to the heartbroken.
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