Erinyes
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Erinyes englanniksi
The Furies; the goddess|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''.
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2018, Stephen Rendall (translator), Jacques Jouanna, ''Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context'', 2008, Jacques Jouanna, ''Sophocle'', (w), page 393,
- First, heSophocles 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.
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