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====Lamia==== [[Lamia (mythology)|Lamia]] was a lovely queen of [[Libya]], whom Zeus loved; Hera in jealousy robbed Lamia of their children, either by kidnapping and hiding them away, killing them, or causing Lamia herself to kill her own offspring.<ref name="johnston">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=57MwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA174 |title=Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece |publisher=Univ of California Press |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-520-28018-2 |editor-last=Johnston |editor-first=Sarah Iles |page=174}}</ref><ref>{{harvp|Ogden|2013b|p=98}}: "Because of Hera ... she lost [''or'': destroyed] the children she bore".</ref> Lamia became disfigured from the torment, transforming into a terrifying being who hunted and killed the children of others.<ref>[[Duris of Samos]] (d. 280 B. C.), ''Libyca'', quoted by {{harvp|Ogden|2013b|p=98}}</ref>
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