Limos’s Family Tree

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Family

• Eris(parent),Horkos(sibling)

  Eris bore a brood of baleful spirits without a father: Horkos who punishes the forsworn, Limos who wastes the flesh with famine, and many other personifications of human suffering catalogued in Hesiod's Theogony.

Equivalent to

• Fames(Roman)

  Limos and Fames are the Greek and Roman personifications of famine. Ovid uses both names in the Metamorphoses, while Virgil places Fames at the entrance to the Underworld in the Aeneid.

Associated with

• Erysichthon

  In Ovid's Metamorphoses, Demeter sent the spirit Limos to breathe insatiable hunger into Erysichthon as he slept. Limos embraced him and filled his body with famine, then returned to her Scythian wasteland.

• Thanatos

  In Virgil's Aeneid, Limos (as Fames) and Thanatos (as Letum) stand together among the personified horrors at the entrance to the Underworld.