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• IPA: /ɪˈɹɪniˌiːz/

固有名詞

Erinyes (singular Erinys)

1. (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

   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 227:

     The Erinyes, as defenders of older mother-right, deny the possibility of absolution for the slayer of a mother.

   • 1999, Sarah Iles Johnston, Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece, University of California Press, page 252:

     In six of the twelve Homeric passages in which Erinys or the Erinyes are mentioned, the common denominator is a crime or insult that occurs between blood kin: The Erinyes take action when a son steals his father's concubine, a son kills his father and marries his mother, two brothers argue, a son angers his mother, a man kills his mother's brother, or a son chases his mother out of her home.

   • 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 now envisages several Erinyes: then he designates, using a poetic metaphor already employed by Aeschylus in The Libation Bearers, that of hunting hounds pursuing game that cannot escape them.

   • 2020, Bridget Martin, Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy, Liverpool University Press, page 161:

     Apollo's help and defence of Orestes is taken by the Erinyes as a threat to their own honour and to the perpetuation of their ancient privilege to pursue murderers (169–74).

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