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ALALA - Alala (Ancient Greek: (alalá); "battle-cry" or "war-cry"), was the personification of the war cry in Greek mythology. Her name derives from the o...
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Oct 11 2002 Wall Street Journal |
Feb 18 1999 New York Times |
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Expressing exultation, encouragement, etc.: used as a battle cry by the ancient Greeks. |
A cry of alala. rare. |
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Alala (Ancient Greek: (alalá); "battle-cry" or "war-cry"), was the personification of the war cry in Greek mythology. Her name derives from the onomatopoeic Greek word (alal), hence the verb (alaláz), "to raise the war-cry". Greek soldiers attacked the enemy with this cry in order to cause panic in their lines. Hesiod asserted that Athenians adopted it to emulate the cry of the owl, the bird of their patron goddess Athena.* According to Pindar, Alala was the daughter of Polemos, the personification of war, and was characterised by the poet as "Prelude of spears, to whom soldiers are sacrificed for their citys sake in the holy sacrifice of death". Her aunt was the war goddess Enyo and her uncle was the war god Ares, whose poetic epithet is Alaláxios (). As such she is one of the attendants of Ares out on the battlefield, along with the rest of his entourage: Phobos and Deimos (his sons); Eris/Discordia, with the Androktasiai, Makhai, Hysminai, and the Phonoi (Eris' children); the |