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Eumenides
Eumenides Eu*men"i*des, n. pl. [L., from Gr. ? lit., gracious goddesses.] (Class. Myth.) A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.

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- (also called Erinyes or Eumenides). The Oresteia trilogy consists of three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides. It shows how the Gr****...
- Eumenides may refer to: Erinyes, or Eumenides, Gr**** deities of vengeance The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus' Gr**** tragedy, the Oresteia This...
- your rage, and to our rites incline. Hymn 70, to the Eumenides: Hear me, illustrious Furies [Eumenides], mighty nam'd, terrific pow'rs, for prudent counsel...
- Themis. Aeschylus, Eumenides in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. in two volumes. 2. Eumenides. Herbert Weir Smyth...
- Oresteia (the three tragedies Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides), and Prometheus Bound (whose authorship is disputed). With the exception...
- Miss Treason's speciality is Justice (in fact her name refers to the Eumenides of Gr**** myth, who came to represent Justice in the later myths). People...
- Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris...
- of a new god by allusions to Aeschylus' The Eumenides; the irony would have been that just as the Eumenides were not new gods at all but the Furies in...
- Species: M. polistes Binomial name Myrmecopsis polistes (Hübner, 1818) Synonyms Pseudosphex polistes Hübner, 1818 Myrmecopsis eumenides Newman, 1850...
- committed long ago by “Eumenides,” a self-styled avenger, and together they had been investigating the possibility that Eumenides has resurfaced. In Gr****...