Erinyes

English right|thumb|Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1862) Etymology Borrowed from en grc Ἐρῑνύες Avengers. Pronunciation en /ɪˈɹɪniˌiːz/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Sumxr-Erinyes2.wav US Proper noun en proper noun singular Erinys en Greek god 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. en Eumenides Furies en Alecto Megaera Tisiphone en Dirae en 1924 Herbert Weir Smyth Aeschylean Tragedy VIII. Orestea. III: Eumenides 227 The Erinyes, as defenders of older mother-right, deny the possibility of absolution for the slayer of a mother. en 1999 w:Sarah Iles Johnston Restless Dead: Encounters Between the Living and the Dead in Ancient Greece https://books.google.com.au/books?id=57MwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA252&dq=%22Erinyes%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihidvYgd38AhXfHLkGHVuGC0kQ6AF6BAhkEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Erinyes%22&f=false 252 w:University of California Press 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[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. en 2020 Bridget Martin Harmful Interaction between the Living and the Dead in Greek Tragedy w:Liverpool University Press https://books.google.com.au/books?id=inJvEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA161&dq=%22Erinyes%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwihidvYgd38AhXfHLkGHVuGC0kQ6AF6BAhlEAI#v=onepage&q=%22Erinyes%22&f=false 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). Translations Greek goddesses of vengeance Furies Bulgarian: bg еринии f-p French: fr Érinyes f-p Greek: el Ερινύες f-p Ancient Greek: grc Ἐρῑνύες f-p Hungarian: hu Erinnüszök p Italian: it Erinni f-p Polish: pl Erynie f-p Portuguese: pt Erínias f-p Further reading Poena Nemesis Triple deity