CROWELL'S HANDBOOK OF CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY1970 |
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Page 231
... Erinyes . Female spirits who punished offenders against blood kin . The Erin- yes , whom the Romans called Furies , were born , together with the Giants and the Meliae , from the earth when it was fertilized by drops of blood from the ...
... Erinyes . Female spirits who punished offenders against blood kin . The Erin- yes , whom the Romans called Furies , were born , together with the Giants and the Meliae , from the earth when it was fertilized by drops of blood from the ...
Page 233
... Erinyes to cease persecuting Orestes and persuaded them to give up their primitive functions as bringer of retribution in favor of new roles as the gracious Eumenides . Their maddening of Orestes is demonstrated ( without their ...
... Erinyes to cease persecuting Orestes and persuaded them to give up their primitive functions as bringer of retribution in favor of new roles as the gracious Eumenides . Their maddening of Orestes is demonstrated ( without their ...
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... Erinyes , both in their appearance and in their function , which was to claim and carry off the bodies of the dead to Hades . They per- sonified , however , only the inevitability of death and generally lacked the re- tributive duties ...
... Erinyes , both in their appearance and in their function , which was to claim and carry off the bodies of the dead to Hades . They per- sonified , however , only the inevitability of death and generally lacked the re- tributive duties ...
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