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Headword: Eumenides
Adler number: epsilon,3581
Translated headword: Eumenides, Kindly Ones
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aeschylus in Eumenides, speaking of the trial of Orestes, says that Athena soothed the Furies so as to end their hostility to Orestes, and named them Eumenides. There were three: Alekto, Mega[i]ra, Tisiphone.
Greek Original:
Eumenides: Aischulos Eumenisin, eipôn ta peri tên krisin tên Orestou phêsin, hôs hê Athêna epraüne tas Erinnuas, hôste mê chalepôs echein pros ton Orestên, Eumenidas autas ônomasen. eisi de treis, Alêktô, Megara, Tisiphonê.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v., commenting in the first instance on their brief (collective) mention in Demosthenes 23.66 (web address 1).
See also epsilon 3580; and cf. epsilon 2994, epsilon 2995.
Reference:
OCD(4) 535-6, s.v. Erinyes
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: aetiology; ethics; law; mythology; religion; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 November 2000@08:02:33.
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Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 22 July 2003@21:52:48.
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