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Definition of Erinyes

1. Noun. (classical mythology) the hideous snake-haired monsters (usually three in number) who pursued unpunished criminals.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Erinyes

Literary usage of Erinyes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Greek Philosophers by Alfred William Benn (1882)
"In the next place, the erinyes are let loose not by the action itself but by ... And, finally, the office assigned to the erinyes of seeing that the laws of ..."

2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"LESSER DIVINITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD erinyes (Latin Furiae). — After the murder of Abel, we are told in Genesis,2 God said to Cain: "The voice of thy ..."

3. Greek and Roman [mythology] by William Sherwood Fox (1916)
"LESSER DIVINITIES OF THE UNDERWORLD erinyes (Latin Furiae). — After the murder of Abel, we are told in Genesis,2 God said to Cain: "The voice of thy ..."

4. Manual of Mythology: In Relation to Greek Art by Maxime Collignon (1890)
"It is probable that art followed dramatic poetry in investing the erinyes w1th a severe and impressive aspect, the terrible side of which was gradually ..."

5. The Mythology of the Aryan Nations by George William Cox (1870)
"to the fearful erinyes; but the Erinys is still a being who CHAP. wanders in the air. The wrath of Ate may never slumber, - i' - so long as the murderer ..."

6. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion by Jane Ellen Harrison (1903)
"The erinyes remained erinyes, and in popular bogey form went, as has been seen (p. 232), to people ..with horrors a Christian hell. ..."

7. Glossary of Terms and Phrases by Henry Percy Smith (1883)
"erinyes, The avenging. In Gr. Myth., the beings who exact vengeance for bloodshed are so called. ... erinyes of Clytemnestra haunt her son Orestes. ..."

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