Save Gender Feminine Usage Greek Mythology Scripts Ἀχλύς(Ancient Greek) Pronounced Pron. /ˈæk.lɪs/(English) [key·simplify] Meaning & History Means "mist, darkness" in Greek. According to a poem by Hesiod, she was one of the figures portrayed on the shield of Herakles. She is described as a wraithlike woman personifying death and sorrow. Categories dark, death, death deities, feelings, goddesses, grief, personifications, sadness, weather, wet
