Alecto

"Die, honey!"

- Alecto

Alecto is one of the three Furies, the three chief servants of Hades and the head torturers in the Underworld. The translation of her name is something like 'Implacable anger'. Not for nothing was she the one sent after Percy.

History
Furies are female, chthonic deities of vengeance. They represent regeneration and the potency of creation, which both consumes and empowers.

When the mighty Titan Kronos castrated his father Ouranus and threw what was left into the sea, the Erinyes emerged from the drops of blood, while Aphrodite was born from the seafoam. According to a variant account, they issued from an even more primordial level—from Nyx, 'Night'.

History recognized three: Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone.

In the story Canto VIII of the Inferno they confront the poets at the gates of the city of Dis. The heads of the Erinyes, whom the two poets met in Canto IV, were wreathed with serpants and their eyes dripped with blood, rendering their appearance rather horrific. Sometimes they had the wings of a bat or bird, and the body of a dog.

According to a legend recounted in Bulfinch's Mythology, the Furies played a central role in avenging the tragic death of playwright Ibycus. When two thieves attacked Ibycus on his way to a festival in the Isthmus of Corinth, the poet, realizing his imminent death, appealed to a flock of cranes flying overhead to take up his cause. Later, the murderers attended a theatrical performance in which the "Eumenides," presented as a chorus of Gorgon-like monsters, called out for torment to consume the hearts of the guilty. At that moment, a flock of cranes unexpectedly appeared, causing one of the guilty men to cry out Ibycus' name to his accomplice, thus revealing their identities to the audience.

The Lightning Thief
Alecto is disguised as Mrs. Dodds, a pre-algebra teacher at Yancy Academy. She disliked Percy Jackson and it was later discovered that she was actually one of The Furies and not really human at all. When Percy did his first act of inhuman powers (making the water in a fountain reach out of the fountain's basin, grab Nancy Bobofit, and pull her in), Alecto's suspicions of Percy were confirmed--partially. Percy is the son of Poseidon, evidenced by his dominion over water, but Percy was not the thief of her master's Helm of Darkness, as Hades had been led to believe. In frustration, she revealed her true form and attacked Percy. Percy was armed with Riptide at the last moment and his first swipe with the sword connected, turning Alecto into dust and sending her spirit back to the Underworld. She was reformed and appeared with her two sisters--all three of the Furies, Hades' greatest servants--to again accost Percy (and his friends) on a bus as they began their quest. The Furies had to flee, but almost got Percy and his friends in the Underworld. A short time later, they witnessed Percy's battle with Ares, and Ares' free confession of his own treachery. After Ares left, defeated, Percy gave them the Helm of Darkness to return to its rightful master. Alecto took a moment to tell Percy to become a true hero and never wind up in her clutches.

The Titan's Curse
Alecto does not appear, but Bianca says a lawyer took her out of the Lotus Hotel. This lawyer is Alecto.

The Last Olympian
Mrs. Dodds appears again in the final book, calling Percy 'honey' again. Her real name was revealed to be Alecto, and that she works for Hades. She was the 'lawyer' who took Nico di Angelo and his sister out of Lotus Hotel.

Film
In the film, The Lightning Thief, Alecto is played by Maria Olsen.

While in the book Mrs. Dodds is a Pre-Algebra teacher, she is an English substitute teacher in the film.

Trivia

 * Although the series implies that there are only three furies, more than 3 chased both Oedipidus and Orsestes at dfferent time periods.
 * She is immortal