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Eriphyle (/ɛrɪˈfaɪliː/;
Ancient Gr****: Ἐριφύλη, romanized: Eriphúlē) was a
figure in Gr****
mythology who, in
exchange for the
necklace of
Harmonia (also...
- The
Necklace of Harmonia, also
called the
Necklace of
Eriphyle, was a
fabled object in Gr****
mythology that,
according to legend,
brought great misfortune...
- that he did not want to partake, but he was
coerced to do so by his wife
Eriphyle, who had been
bribed by Polynices.
Amphiaraus had
instructed his son Alcmaeon...
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Ériphyle is a
tragedy in five acts by Voltaire. He
began working on it in 1731 and it was
completed and
performed in 1732. The poor
success of the stage...
- he
foresaw the
death of
everyone who
joined the expedition. His wife,
Eriphyle,
eventually compelled him to go.
Amphiaraus was the son of Oicles. This...
- die, and so
refused to join. But when
Polynices bribed Amphiaraus' wife
Eriphyle to tell her
husband to join the expedition, he was
forced to obey because...
- Atreus's son Pleisthenes, with
their mother being Aerope, Cleolla, or
Eriphyle.
According to this
tradition Pleisthenes died young, with
Agamemnon and...
- Pausanias, the poet
Asius made
Alcmene the
daughter of
Amphiaraus and
Eriphyle.
Hesiod describes Alcmene as the tallest, most
beautiful woman with wisdom...
- it to
Eriphyle, that she
might persuade her husband, Amphiaraus, to
undertake the
expedition against Thebes.
Through Alcmaeon, the son of
Eriphyle, the...
- the
children of Amphilochus. But Alcmaeon,
because of his
treatment of
Eriphyle, is
honored neither in the
temple of
Amphiaraus nor yet with Amphilochus...
