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Eumenides
Eumenides Eu*men"i*des, n. pl. [L., from Gr. ? lit., gracious goddesses.] (Class. Myth.) A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.

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- Eumenides may refer to: Erinyes, or Eumenides, Gr**** deities of vengeance The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus' Gr**** tragedy, the Oresteia This...
- (also called Erinyes or Eumenides). The Oresteia trilogy consists of three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides. It shows how the Gr****...
- your rage, and to our rites incline. Hymn 69, to the Eumenides: Hear me, illustrious Furies [Eumenides], mighty nam'd, terrific pow'rs, for prudent counsel...
- Miss Treason's speciality is Justice (in fact her name refers to the Eumenides of Gr**** myth, who came to represent Justice in the later myths). People...
- Oresteia (the three tragedies Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides), and Prometheus Bound (whose authorship is disputed). With the exception...
- Themis. Aeschylus, Eumenides in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. in two volumes. 2. Eumenides. Herbert Weir Smyth...
- Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris...
- goddesses of vengeance, with those of harpies in the following lines of The Eumenides: Before this man an extraordinary band of women [i.e. the Erinyes] slept...
- Μέγαιρα, romanized: Mégaira, lit. 'the jealous one') is one of the Erinyes, Eumenides or "Furies" in Gr**** mythology. Bibliotheca classica states "According...
- Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4. 594. Plutarch, Moralia 657e Aeschylus, Eumenides Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo Callimachus, Hymn to Delos Alcaeus, Hymn to...