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Lyssa

deity sky Greek single tradition · 3

Lyssa is the goddess of madness and insanity. In Euripides' play Heracles Gone Mad, Iris appears alongside Lyssa, the goddess of madness and insanity, cursing Heracles with the fit of madness in which he kills his three sons and his wife Megara.

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When

First attested
800 BCE
Attested period
-800 – 2020
Historical notes
Referenced in Euripides' play Heracles Gone Mad.

Relationships

allied with
Iris
enemy of
Actaeon
co occurs with
Apollo, Ares, Dionysus, harpies, Hera, Eileithyia, Artemis (Diana), Zeus, Diana, Athena, Chiron, Semele

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Mentioned by

Sources

wikipedia (3)
  1. Iris (mythology)
  2. Lyssa
  3. Actaeon

Source passages

“In Euripides' play Heracles Gone Mad, Iris appears alongside Lyssa, the goddess of madness and insanity, cursing Heracles with the fit of madness in which he kills his three sons and his wife Megara.”

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“A number of ancient Greek vases depicting the metamorphosis and death of Actaeon include the goddess Lyssa in the scene, infecting his dogs with rabies and setting them against him.”

#42227 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001

“In a 440s BC red-figure bell-krater by the Lykaon Painter, Lyssa stands to the right of Actaeon, inflicting his dogs with rabies and directing them against him.”

#46036 · extracted by openai/gpt-oss-120b:free