Erinyes

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρῑνύες (Erīnúes, literally “Avengers”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ɪˈɹɪniˌiːz/ === Proper noun === Erinyes (singular Erinys) (Greek mythology) The Furies; the goddesses of vengeance against serious moral offence (such as oath-breaking), latterly known as protectors of Athens, of pre-Olympian origin and variously described as having sprung from the spilled blood of Uranus or as daughters of Nyx; identified with the Roman Dirae. Synonyms: Eumenides, Furies Hyponyms: Alecto, Megaera, Tisiphone Coordinate term: Dirae 2018, Stephen Rendall (translator), Jacques Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, [2008, Jacques Jouanna, Sophocle], Princeton University Press, page 393, First, he[Sophocles] now envisages several Erinyes: then he designates, using a poetic metaphor already employed by Aeschylus in The Libation Bearers,154 that of hunting hounds pursuing game that cannot escape them. ==== Translations ==== === Further reading === Erinyes on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Poena on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Nemesis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Triple deity on Wikipedia.Wikipedia Category:Erinyes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons