may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Linear B. The Erinyes (/ɪˈrɪni.iːz/ ih-RIN-ee-eez; sing. Erinys /ɪˈrɪnɪs, ɪˈraɪnɪs/ ih-RIN-iss...
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Greek underworld (section The Erinyes)
nation was harboring such a criminal, the Erinyes would cause starvation and disease to the nation. The Erinyes were dreaded by the living since they embodied...
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Alecto (category Furies/Erinyes)
romanized: Alēktṓ, lit. 'the implacable or unceasing anger') is one of the Erinyes (Furies) in Greek mythology. According to Hesiod, Alecto was the daughter...
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acquittal in accordance with the rules previously stipulated by Athena. The Erinye, who insisted on Orestes' responsibility in the murder, are converted into...
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hymn, Melinoë has characteristics that seem similar to Hecate and the Erinyes, and Melinoë's name is sometimes thought to be an epithet of Hecate. Melinoë...
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and/or agriculture. This makes some deities such as Hades, Persephone, and Erinyes more likely to be considered chthonic due to their proximity to the underworld...
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underworld Residents Aeacus Angelos Arae Ascalaphus Cerberus Ceuthonymus Charon Erinyes Eurynomos Hades Hecate Hypnos Macaria Melinoë Menoetius Minos Moirai Persephone...
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Tisiphone (category Furies/Erinyes)
Greek: Τισιφόνη, romanized: Tisiphónē), or Tilphousia, was one of the three Erinyes or Furies. Her sisters were Alecto and Megaera. She and her sisters punished...
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Hestia Poseidon Zeus Chthonic deities Hades Persephone Angelos Demeter Erinyes Gaia Hecate Iacchus Melinoë Triptolemus Trophonius Lesser deities Alpheus...
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being, and sometimes in the plural as Poenai (Ποιναί) and are akin to the Erinyes. Her Roman equivalent may have been Ultio. The Greek word poinḗ (ποινή)...
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blood that spilled out from Uranus and fell upon the earth, the Gigantes, Erinyes, and Meliae were produced. The testicles produced a white foam from which...
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Eumenides may refer to: Erinyes, or Eumenides, Greek deities of vengeance The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus' Greek tragedy, the Oresteia This...
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Devil (Dungeons & Dragons) (redirect from Erinyes (Dungeons & Dragons))
included the barbed devil (lesser devil), the bone devil (lesser devil), the erinyes (lesser devil), the horned devil (malebranche) (greater devil), the ice...
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Hestia Poseidon Zeus Chthonic deities Hades Persephone Angelos Demeter Erinyes Gaia Hecate Iacchus Melinoë Triptolemus Trophonius Lesser deities Alpheus...
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Megaera (category Furies/Erinyes)
Greek: Μέγαιρα, romanized: Mégaira, lit. 'the jealous one') is one of the Erinyes, Eumenides or "Furies" in Greek mythology. Bibliotheca Classica states...
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Hestia Poseidon Zeus Chthonic deities Hades Persephone Angelos Demeter Erinyes Gaia Hecate Iacchus Melinoë Triptolemus Trophonius Lesser deities Alpheus...
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sits a wide-walled castle with a tall, iron turret. Tisiphone, one of the Erinyes, who represents vengeance, stands sleepless guard at the top of the turret...
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Other major deities Anemoi Boreas Eurus Notus Zephyrus Azone Chrysaor Cybele Eileithyia The Erinyes (Furies) Harmonia The Muses Nemesis Pan Pegasus Zelus...
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Briareus Cottus Gyges Cyclopes Arges Brontes Steropes Other siblings Gigantes Erinyes (the Furies) Meliae Half-siblings Aphrodite Eurybia Ceto Nereus Phorcys...
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with Electra helping). Before her death, Clytemnestra cursed Orestes. The Erinyes or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family...
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Barbazu Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994) Baatezu, Lesser – Erinyes Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix (1994) Based on the figures from...
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Patroclus and that a god would soon kill Achilles too. After this, the Erinyes struck the horse dumb. Based on fragments from Alcman and Stesichorus,...
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Hestia Poseidon Zeus Chthonic deities Hades Persephone Angelos Demeter Erinyes Gaia Hecate Iacchus Melinoë Triptolemus Trophonius Lesser deities Alpheus...
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the hearts of Hades and Persephone, his singing so sweet that even the Erinyes wept, he was allowed to take her back to the world of the living. In another...
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Clytemnestra trying to awake the Erinyes while her son is being purified by Apollo, Apulian red-figure krater, 480–470 BC, Louvre (Cp 710)...
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common in Indoeuropean grammar (usually for chthonic deities like the Erinyes) and the duality was used for Demeter and Persephone in classical Greece...
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tragedy Orestes, Athena intervenes to save Orestes from the wrath of the Erinyes and presides over his trial for the murder of his mother Clytemnestra....
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Megaera is one of the Erinyes in Greek mythology. Megaera may also refer to: 464 Megaira, an asteroid named after the Erinye HMS Megaera (1849), a Royal...
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Hestia Poseidon Zeus Chthonic deities Hades Persephone Angelos Demeter Erinyes Gaia Hecate Iacchus Melinoë Triptolemus Trophonius Lesser deities Alpheus...
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Devil Dragon Elemental - a being of the alchemical works of Paracelsus Erinyes Fairies Fenghuang Fionnuala Firebird - large bird with magically luminescent...
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