InGreek mythology,Ioke (/aɪˈoʊkiː/;Ancient Greek:Ἰωκή) is the female personification of onslaught, battle-tumult, routing, and pursuit. In theIliad, she is one of thedaimones, or spirits, ofZeus'saegis and occasionally listed among theMachai. The other daimones arePhobos,Eris, andAlke. Ioke was probably the same asProioxis.

Theancient Greek wordἰωκή is a raredoublet forδιωκή "rout, onslaught, pursuit" from the common verbδιώκω "drive, pursue, chase away".^[1]

Ioke's parentage is never stated, but she may have been a daughter of Eris, as were many daimones. She is described in the Iliad as thus:^[2]

"Across her [Athena's] shoulders she threw the betasselled, terrible aigis (aegis), all about which Phobos (Terror) hangs like a garland, and Eris (Hatred) is there, and Alke (Battle Strength), and heart-freezing Ioke (Onslaught) and thereon is set the head of the grim gigantic Gorgo (Gorgon), a thing of fear and horror, portent of Zeus of the aigis."

• Homer,The Iliad with an English Translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes. Cambridge, MA., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1924.ISBN 978-0674995796.Online version at the Perseus Digital Library.
• Homer,Homeri Opera in five volumes. Oxford, Oxford University Press. 1920.ISBN 978-0198145318.Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.

• IOKE from the Theoi Project

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