Limos

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Limos is the Greek personification of hunger and starvation, often depicted as a spirit who brings famine and scarcity.

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Label Occurrences
Limos canonical 2

Statements (30)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Greek deity
personification
spirit
appearsAs emaciated spirit
gaunt figure
associatedWith deprivation
poverty
category Chthonic spirits
Greek personifications
Hunger deities
contrastedWith abundance
wealth
culture Ancient Greek religion
domain famine
hunger
scarcity
starvation
gender female
influences human suffering
languageOfName Ancient Greek
mentionedIn Ovid's Metamorphoses NERFINISHED
mythologicalTradition Greek mythology
nameMeaning hunger
opposedBy Demeter NERFINISHED
Plutus NERFINISHED
role bringer of famine
embodiment of hunger
symbolizes famine as divine force
lack of food
typeOfDeity daimon

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eris (Greek goddess of strife and discord) offspring Limos
subject surface form: Eris
Eris offspring Limos