Man-hater

[dellacor]

For story whose main character is a man-hating woman who overcomes trait, I need a character from mythology she can be compared to.

[Nightshade]

umm there were those women ancient greece in Jason and (the golden fleece) argonots story who ahh killed the men after umm they had their way wickid way with them i suppose you could say
Amazons
then there were those warrior wome vickings the servents of thor or Oden or whoever one of them was captive in a ring of fire for many years and then freed and eventually fell in love with seigfried(? maybe another ancient person not too good on norse mythology sorry)
Ooo Hatchepsut though thats not mythoplogy had herself declared a man .
umm who else???
Im sure in one of the Homer stories or one of the other great ancient greek tales their were monsters who were female and ate men.
Sorry thats all I can help
OH yes Mermaids the original legend is they hated men which is why they lured sailors to their death then their is the story Of Tam(whats his face I cant rember off the top of my head I need to look it up on monday) where this woman married all these men every so many years and killed them sort of like a female bluebeard. There are thousands of legends let alone some of tyhe tings witchs were accused of doing in the dark ages which was very anti-male.

[Pietro]

The sirens and Charybdis(sp?) were both man-ravaging females of mythology, and it could be argued that Helen, while not herself an aggressor, was herself an interlocutor of hatred stirring amongst men; she would be an interesting choice, given the many implications and complexities. A rather dull name though.

There is also the myth of Pomona and Vertumnus:

http://www.loggia.com/myth/pomona.html

Hera hated men, but in the sense of Man opposed to individual men. Pallas Athene did not hate men, but would make an interesting subject for you, perhaps. She had no actual want for men, was a warrior, etc. It was she who helped Odysseus, as well as Orestes (Goddess of Wisdom; only she could settle his trial).
But once, she was bathing in the forest and a hunter named Actaeon came across her. Because she was chaste, and because he had seen her fully naked, she had his hunting dogs tear him apart.

Pound likened this to the looming of WWI:
http://www.bartleby.com/265/284.html

Not relevant to the topic here, but a good poem nonetheless.

[Themis]

The sirens and Charybdis(sp?) were both man-ravaging females of mythology, and it could be argued that Helen, while not herself an aggressor, was herself an interlocutor of hatred stirring amongst men; she would be an interesting choice, given the many implications and complexities. A rather dull name though.

You're mixing something up here. There are the sirens and then there are Scylla and Charybdis. But they are not really man-haters. Scylla was kind of a sea monster (with half of a woman's body, right) who lived at one side of a strait, while Charybdis "lived" von its other side.While passing through the strait people would have to try avoiding both Scylla and Charybdis because otherwise they'd die.

The sirens would lure men on to destruction with their singing. They were no monster though (not really).



Hera hated men, but in the sense of Man opposed to individual men.

I wouldn't be so sure about this. Hera was married to Zeus and hab several children with him.

[mono]

For story whose main character is a man-hating woman who overcomes trait, I need a character from mythology she can be compared to.
In Greek and Roman myth, Dionysus (or Bacchus), god of wine, seemed well renowned to promote Bacchanal celebrations, mostly attended by women, which, sometimes, involved the women violently killing men.
For another recommendation, I would suggest looking into Ovid's Metamorphoses. Daphne, daughter of a river saint, Peneus, does not necessarily hate men, but grew a profound dislike toward the Greek god, Apollo, who, stricken by Eros' (Cupid) arrow, chased her out of greedy love. She prayed to the river Peneus to escape somehow, and metamorphosed into the laurel tree, which Apollo later highly renowned as sacred (and used as crowns in Olympic competitions).
Good luck! :)