- three-character
triptych of
Erinyes; in
Canto IX of the Inferno, they
confront the
poets at the
gates of the city of Dis.
Whilst the
Erinyes were
usually described...
- monsters. The
Pythian priestess of
Apollo compares the
appearance of the
Erinyes,
chthonic goddesses of vengeance, with
those of
harpies in the following...
-
nation was
harboring such a criminal, the
Erinyes would cause starvation and
disease to the nation. The
Erinyes were
dreaded by the
living since they embodied...
- Ur****, from Ur****'s blood,
which splattered onto the earth, came the
Erinyes (Furies), the Giants, and the Meliae. Also,
according to the Theogony,...
- Gr**** cult of the body that was
essentially a
religious activity. The
Erinyes, a
group of
chthonic goddesses of vengeance,
served as
tools of the Moirai...
- hymn, Melinoë has
characteristics that seem
similar to
Hecate and the
Erinyes, and Melinoë's name is
sometimes thought to be an
epithet of Hecate. The...
- Eumenides,
Orestes goes mad
after killing his
mother and is
pursued by the
Erinyes (Furies),
whose duty it is to
punish any
violation of the ties of family...
- s.v.
Erinyes, p. 231; Gantz, p. 10. Gantz, p. 13.
Johnston 2004, para. 2. Rose &
Dietrich 2003a, p. 556. Sarian, p. 825; Grimal, s.v.
Erinyes, p. 151...
-
Oedipus has come with his
daughters Antigone and
Ismene as
suppliants of the
Erinyes and of Theseus, the king of Athens. Led by Antigone,
Oedipus enters the...
- beings—in the plural, the name is
Poenai (Ποιναί); the
Poenai are akin to the
Erinyes. Her
Roman equivalent may have been Ultio.[citation needed] The Gr**** word...
