Erinyes Definition

ĭ-rĭnē-ēz
erinys
noun
The demonic female spirits, often three in number, who pursue and punish the doers of unavenged crimes.
American Heritage

Furies.

Webster's New World
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pronoun

(Greek mythology) The goddesses of vengeance; they were also known to accompany Nemesis. Their Roman counterparts were the Dirae.

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Origin of Erinyes

  • From Ancient Greek Ἐρῑνύες (Erīnues, literally “Avengers”), Furies.

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Erinyes Sentence Examples

  • The Erinyes demand their victim; he pleads.

  • Epicaste (as Jocasta is called in Homer) hanged herself, and Oedipus lived as king in Thebes tormented by the Erinyes of his mother.

  • Beneath, at the north-eastern corner, is the cleft which formed the sanctuary of the I Eµvat, or Erinyes.

  • Their function of snatching away mortals to the other world brings them into connexion with the Erinyes, with whom they are often confounded.

  • Then, yielding to his wife's entreaties, he sallied forth and defeated the enemy, but was never seen again, having been carried off by the Erinyes, who had heard his mother's curse (or he was slain by Apollo in battle).

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