Megaera
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- There is also a figure named Megara (mythology).
Megaera (Greek: Μέγαιρα, "the jealous one") is one of the Erinyes in Greek Mythology. She is the cause of jealousy and envy, and causes people to commit crimes, especially marital infidelity. Like her sisters Alecto and Tisiphone, she was born of the blood of Uranus when Cronus castrated him.
In modern French (mégère), Italian (megera) and Portuguese (megera), derivatives of this name are used to designate a jealous or spiteful woman.
[edit] References in popular culture
Megaera is the name of the gorgon in the 1964 film The Gorgon, although this seems a misunderstanding of her role in Greek mythology.
Megara is the name of the woman Hercules falls in love with in Disney's Hercules and makes an apearance in the Playstation 2 game Kingdom Hearts II (SquareEnix)
In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, Megaera is a summoned spirit.
In Thomas Pynchon's "Against the Day" The HMS Megaera is described as "...a frigate which had been wrecked on Amsterdam Island nearly thirty years before." (107)This is an actual historical incident, described in excellent detail here: http://www2.xlibris.com/bookstore/book_excerpt.asp?bookid=1535
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