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Trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus
(also called Erinyes or Eumenides). The Oresteia trilogy consists of three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides. It shows how the Greek
Oresteia
Topics referred to by the same term
Eumenides may refer to: Erinyes, or Eumenides, Greek deities of vengeance The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus' Greek tragedy, the Oresteia This
Eumenides
Chthonic female deities of vengeance in Greek mythology
your rage, and to our rites incline. Hymn 69, to the Eumenides: Hear me, illustrious Furies [Eumenides], mighty nam'd, terrific pow'rs, for prudent counsel
Erinyes
5th-century BC Athenian Greek tragedian
Oresteia (the three tragedies Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides), and Prometheus Bound (whose authorship is disputed). With the exception
Aeschylus
Personification of the Earth in Greek mythology
Hesiod. It was also given to her in her worship at the Achaean Aegai. In Eumenides, the priestess announced her first prayers to "Gaia the first prophetess"
Gaia
Ancient Greek god
Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica, 4. 594. Plutarch, Moralia 657e Aeschylus, Eumenides Callimachus, Hymn to Apollo Callimachus, Hymn to Delos Alcaeus, Hymn to
Apollo
Greek goddess identified with Diana
Themis. Aeschylus, Eumenides in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. in two volumes. 2. Eumenides. Herbert Weir Smyth
Phoebe_(Titaness)
Epic poem attributed to Homer
trilogy, the Oresteia, comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, follows the story of Agamemnon after his return from the war. Publius
Iliad
Figure in Greek mythology
Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris
Orestes
Species of moth
Species: M. polistes Binomial name Myrmecopsis polistes (Hübner, 1818) Synonyms Pseudosphex polistes Hübner, 1818 Myrmecopsis eumenides Newman, 1850
Myrmecopsis_polistes
Major subset of the "Discworld" novels by Terry Pratchett
Miss Treason's speciality is Justice (in fact her name refers to the Eumenides of Greek myth, who came to represent Justice in the later myths). People
Witches_(Discworld)
Greek goddess of spring and the queen of the underworld
Praxidike as an epithet of Persephone: "Praxidike, subterranean queen. The Eumenides' source [mother], fair-haired, whose frame proceeds from Zeus' ineffable
Persephone
Greek goddess of divine law
Eridanos Nymphai here". Diodorus Siculus, 5.67.4; Orphic hymn 79 Aeschylus, Eumenides 1–8; West 1985, p. 174. Strabo, Geographica 9.3.11 [= FGrHist 70 F31b];
Themis
Ancient Greek goddess
that they are in some way related to them." (Timaeus 21e.) Aeschylus, Eumenides, v. 292 f. Cf. the tradition that she was the daughter of Neilos: see
Athena
Greek mythological figure
much prayed for." Aeschylus, Eumenides 533. Aeschylus, Eumenides 532–534. Aeschylus, translated in two volumes. 2. Eumenides by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.
Dyssebeia
1980 book by Orson Scott Card
Breathing Exercises" "Closing the Timelid" "I Put My Blue Genes On" "Eumenides in the Fourth Floor Lavatory" "Mortal Gods" "Quietus" "The Monkeys Thought
Unaccompanied Sonata and Other Stories
Unaccompanied_Sonata_and_Other_Stories
Half-bird half-woman monsters associated with storm winds
goddesses of vengeance, with those of harpies in the following lines of The Eumenides: Before this man an extraordinary band of women [i.e. the Erinyes] slept
Harpy
2014 novel by Zhou Haohui
committed long ago by “Eumenides,” a self-styled avenger, and together they had been investigating the possibility that Eumenides has resurfaced. In Greek
Death_Notice_(Zhou_novel)
One of the Erinyes or Furies in Ancient Greek mythology
Μέγαιρα, romanized: Mégaira, lit. 'the jealous one') is one of the Erinyes, Eumenides or "Furies" in classical mythology. Bibliotheca Classica states "According
Megaera
Deme of the phyle Aegeis of ancient Attica
Athens. Besides the temple of Poseidon, it possessed a sacred grove of the Eumenides, altars of Athena Hippia, Demeter, Zeus, and Prometheus, together with
Colonus_(Attica)
Device to resolve the plot of a dramatic work
although it also appeared in comedies. Aeschylus used the device in his Eumenides but it became an established stage machine with Euripides. More than half
Deus_ex_machina
Group of performers who comment on a drama
Electra, the chorus represents the women of Argos. In Aeschylus' The Eumenides, however, the chorus takes the part of a host of avenging Furies. In some
Greek_chorus
Personification of outrage in Greek mythology
noun, hybris, means wanton violence and insolence. [...]' [[Aeschylus, Eumenides 532–534]] [1] Apollodorus 1.4.1. See Frazer's note 3 to Apollodorus 1
Hybris_(mythology)
Ancient Greek deity and herald of the gods
of his wife, Hermes led their souls to Hades. Aeschylus wrote in The Eumenides that Hermes helped Orestes kill Clytemnestra under a false identity and
Hermes
Place and deity in Greek mythology
Joannes Laurentius Lydus (4th century AD) and the Scholiast on Aeschylus's Eumenides, who cites Pindar relating how the earth tried to tartaro "cast down"
Tartarus
Promontory in Athens, and the ancient council associated with it
office, though it is unknown if this was because of Ephialtes. In The Eumenides of Aeschylus (458 BC), the Areopagus is the site of the trial of Orestes
Areopagus
Word used instead of a taboo or dangerous word
different men call the Eumenides by different names. So other names are judged good by other people, but we prefer to call them Eumenides [Favoring Ones] by
Noa-name
English founder of modern nursing (1820–1910)
is to be made'. In 1972, the poet Eleanor Ross Taylor wrote "Welcome Eumenides", a poem written in Nightingale's voice and quoting frequently from Nightingale's
Florence_Nightingale
1944 triptych by Francis Bacon
Irish-born British artist Francis Bacon. The canvasses are based on the Eumenides—or Furies—of Aeschylus's Oresteia, and depict three writhing anthropomorphic
Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion
Three_Studies_for_Figures_at_the_Base_of_a_Crucifixion
Ancient Greek goddess
3.4.4 Aeschylus fr 135 (244), Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides, Fragments. Translated by Smyth, Herbert Weir. Loeb Classical Library
Artemis
Priestess of the Temple of Apollo at Delphi, Greece
pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke i. 4. § 1; Pausanias x. 5. § 3; Aeschylus, The Eumenides opening lines; see excerpts in translation at Theoi Project: Themis. D
Pythia
Elizabethan era comedy by John Lyly
Tellus. Cynthia sends Eumenides, Zantes and Panelion to Thessaly, Greece, and Egypt to find a cure for Endymion. In Thessaly, Eumenides finds a magic fountain
Endymion_(play)
King of Pherae in Thessaly, in Greek mythology
Tibullus, Elegies 2.3 Apollodorus, 1.9.15; Hyginus, Fabulae 50 Aeschylus, Eumenides 728 Plutarch, Amatorius 17. Christopher Harrity (14 August 2013). "The
Admetus_of_Pherae
Son of Cretheus in Greek mythology
Euripides, Alcestis Aeschylus, Eumenides, 711-731 Apollodorus, 1.9.14. Aeschylus, translated in two volumes. 2. Eumenides by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. Cambridge
Pheres_(son_of_Cretheus)
Ancient Greek goddess of the night
233)] [= P. Oxy. 2366.3–8]. Gantz, p. 13; Karusu, p. 905; Aeschylus, Eumenides 321–2 (pp. 394, 395), 416 (pp. 394, 395), 791–2 (pp. 454, 455), 821–2
Nyx
Ancient Greek play by Euripides
different version of the myth which was also depicted by Aeschylus in The Eumenides. The play begins with a soliloquy that outlines the basic plot and events
Orestes_(play)
Greek god and personification of the Sun
Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library 1.6.1; Hansen, p. 178; Gantz, 449 Aeschylus, Eumenides 294; Euripides, Heracles Gone Mad 1192–1194; Ion 987–997; Aristophanes
Helios
Theory by Eduard Norden
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
Unknown_God
Family of large, long-legged birds
to a flock of passing cranes to spread the word of his murder, and the Eumenides subsequently summon these cranes to fly over a crowd of mourners calling
Crane_(bird)
Book series published by Encyclopædia Britannica
Against Thebes Prometheus Bound The Oresteia Agamemnon Choephoroe The Eumenides Sophocles (translated into English prose by Sir Richard C. Jebb) The Oedipus
Great Books of the Western World
Great_Books_of_the_Western_World
5th-century BC Greek playwright
known: Adrastus, Aethon, Alcmeon, Alphesiboea, Athla, Azanes, Cycnus, Eumenides, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Moirai (Fates), Momus, Oedipus, Omphale, Philoctetes
Achaeus_of_Eretria
Irish-born British figurative painter (1909–1992)
"daemons, disaster and loss" now stalked him as if his own version of the Eumenides (Greek for The Furies). Bacon spent the remainder of his stay in Paris
Francis_Bacon_(artist)
God of the underworld in Greek mythology
2nd- or 3rd-century AD Orphic Hymns describe Hades as the father of the Eumenides by Persephone, a parentage also attested in two fragments of Orphic literature
Hades
Goddess of judicial punishment
Persephone, was an epithet of Persephone: "Praxidike, subterranean queen. The Eumenides' source [mother], fair-haired, whose frame proceeds from Zeus' ineffable
Praxidice
First generation of deities in Greek mythology
the Orphic hymns as the authority. Virgil, Aeneid 6.250 (mother of the "Eumenides" another name for the Furies), 7.323–330 (Allecto a daughter of Pluto
Greek_primordial_deities
Greek divinities of curses, oath enforcement
(from the Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 1361) (Greek lyric C5th B.C.) Aeschylus, Eumenides 415 ff. Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 400 ff. Aeschylus, Libation Bearers
Arae
Divination based on chance events or encounters
the word domicilium (residence, dwelling); and to avoid Erinyes, said Eumenides. According to Pausanias, cledonism was popular at Smyrna, where the Apollonian
Cledonism
(458 BC, a trilogy comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers and The Eumenides.) Prometheus Bound (authorship and date of performance is still in dispute)
List of ancient Greek playwrights
List_of_ancient_Greek_playwrights
Graphic novels by Neil Gaiman, 1989–1996
the Furies, under the euphemism, "the Kindly Ones", a translation of "Eumenides", a name they earned during the events of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy
The_Sandman_(comic_book)
Ancient Greek tragedy by Aeschylus
92.AE.86. Smyth, H.W. (1930). Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides, Fragments. Harvard University Press. pp. 437–438. ISBN 0-674-99161-3
Seven_Against_Thebes_(play)
Ritual offering
literature in Oedipus at Colonus, performed as atonement in the grove of the Eumenides: First, water is fetched from a freshly flowing spring; cauldrons which
Libation
Son of Helios in Greek mythology
Diggle, p. 24 Aeschylus (1926). Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides, Fragments (PDF). Loeb Classical Library. Vol. 146. Translated by Smyth
Phaethon
Form of theatre from Ancient Greece
/ Agamemnon); Choephoroi (Χοηφόροι / Choephoroi); Furies (Εὐμενίδες / Eumenides); Prometheus Bound (Προμηθεὺς δεσμώτης / Prometheus desmotes) of uncertain
Greek_tragedy
Ancient Greek tragedy by Sophocles
protection from Creon. Because Oedipus trespassed on the holy ground of the Eumenides, the villagers tell him that he must perform certain rites to appease
Oedipus_at_Colonus
Suppliants (463 BC) Agamemnon (458 BC) The Libation Bearers (458 BC) The Eumenides (458 BC) Ajax (442 BC) Antigone (441 BC) Women of Trachis (450–425 BC)
List of extant ancient Greek and Roman plays
List_of_extant_ancient_Greek_and_Roman_plays
Oresteia using Peter Arnott's translation of Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eumenides. American director Jonathan Vandenberg conceived and directed Oresteia
The Oresteia in the arts and popular culture
The_Oresteia_in_the_arts_and_popular_culture
1937 two-act play written by Jean Giraudoux
garden of the palace. He belongs to the same family as the President. The Eumenides. Girls at the beginning of the play, they grow several years in a few
Electra_(Giraudoux_play)
1973 painting by Francis Bacon
"daemons, disaster and loss" now stalked him as if his own version of the Eumenides. Bacon spent the remainder of his stay in Paris attending to promotional
Triptych,_May–June_1973
German businessman and politician (1867–1922)
und Reden (Frankfurt-am-Main, 1964) Rathenau, W., The Sacrifice to the Eumenides (1913) Walther Rathenau: Industrialist, Banker, Intellectual, And Politician;
Walther_Rathenau
Collection of 87 ancient Greek hymns
describes them similarly to the Moirai 70 "Offering of the Eumenides, spices" Eumenides The "benevolent aspect" of the Erinyes 11 Describes them as even
Orphic_Hymns
Personifications of fate in Greek mythology
named by the Athenians the Semnai (August), and by the Sikyonians the Eumenides (Kindly Ones). On one day in each year they celebrate a festival to them
Moirai
Novel by Cormac McCarthy
murderous men, McCarthy's grotesque equivalent of the Erinyes (or Furies, or Eumenides) of Greek myth. However, cosmic retribution in Outer Dark does not simply
Outer_Dark
Latin legal phrase
Littlefield Publishers. p. 66. ISBN 978-1-4422-1085-1. e.g. Aeschylus, The Eumenides 431, 435 Imam Abu Dawud. 2008. Sunan Abu Dawud Vol. 3 (Translated to English
Audi_alteram_partem
Monster in Greek mythology
Fontenrose, pp. 78. For the nymphs associated with the cave, see Aeschylus, Eumenides 22. Plutarch, Moralia 988A (XII pp. 504–507). Plutarch, Moralia 414A (V
Delphyne
Play written by Edward Albee in 2000
Martin replies, "It's probably the Eumenides." The noise disappears and Martin corrects himself because "the Eumenides don't stop." The allusion foreshadows
The_Goat,_or_Who_Is_Sylvia?
Mexican-French actor and writer
(Eschylus) 1991: Les Atrides: Les Choéphores (Eschylus) 1992: Les Atrides: Les Euménides (Eschylus) 1994: La Ville parjure ou le Réveil des Erinyes (Hélène Cixous)
Brontis_Jodorowsky
1965 film by Russ Meyer
Spring" by one prominent film critic and a "pop-art setting of Aeschylus's Eumenides" by one classical scholar. Haji had worked with Meyer on Motorpsycho.
Faster,_Pussycat!_Kill!_Kill!
Spirits personifying insanity in Ancient Greek mythology
Pausanias's view that these Maniae were the vengeful Furies or Erinyes or Eumenides (Graceful Ones). Quintus Smyrnaeus, Posthomerica 5.450 ff. Pausanias,
Maniae
Sacred site and oracle of Ancient Greece
navel of Gaia was found. According to Aeschylus in the prologue of the Eumenides, the oracle had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of Gaia,
Delphi
Greek personification of persuasion
marriage is so that spouses can achieve their wants without quarreling. In Eumenides, Athena thanks Peitho after convincing the Furies of her reasoning in
Peitho
Greek word meaning 'character'
could also view the character as a symbol. Examples of this might be the Eumenides as vengeance, or Clytemnestra as symbolizing ancestral curse. Yet another
Ethos
Any one of three DC Comics superheroes
revenge upon her brother, she was approached by Tisiphone, one of the Eumenides or Furies, who gave her a suit of magic armor, which increased her strength
Fury_(DC_Comics)
Greek goddess and mother of Apollo and Artemis
Diodorus Siculus, 5.67.2; Hyginus, Fabulae Preface; cf. Aeschylus, The Eumenides 5–8. For a genealogical table of the family of Leto, see Grimal, p. 557
Leto
Ancient Greek-language play series
involved in those early days were Rupert Brooke as the Herald in Aeschylus' Eumenides (1906), Sir Hubert Parry as the composer of incidental music to Aristophanes'
Cambridge_Greek_Play
God in Greek mythology
in the Orphic tradition, the Eumenides are distinguished from the Furies (Greek Erinyes). Vergil conflates the Eumenides and the Furies, and elsewhere
Pluto_(mythology)
King in Greek mythology
the stallion attacked him and killed him by biting. Gilbert Murray, The Eumenides of Aeschylus (Oxford University Press, 1925), p. 15. A.F. Garvie, Aeschylus:
Glaucus_(son_of_Sisyphus)
Giants from Greek myth
66. Hard 2015, p. 68. Kerenyi, p. 95. Singleton, p. 235. Aeschylus, Eumenides 294; Euripides, Heracles 1192–1194; Ion 987–997; Aristophanes, The Birds
Giants_(Greek_mythology)
to Aeschylus, three of which Agamemnon, The Libation-Bearers, and The Eumenides, form a trilogy known as the Oresteia. Prometheus Bound, however, may
Ancient_Greek_literature
Government regime in ancient Athens
other institutions, dramatically reducing its power. In the play The Eumenides, performed in 458, Aeschylus, himself a noble, portrays the Areopagus
Athenian_democracy
Genre of drama based on human suffering
definition can include a change of fortune from bad to good as in the Eumenides, but he says that the change from good to bad as in Oedipus Rex is preferable
Tragedy
5th-century Athenian Old Comedy poet
other known plays include Apseudeis, Hesiodoi, Prytanes, Sterrhoi, and Eumenides. The standard edition of the fragments is Rudolf Kassel and Colin Austin
Telecleides
Object of religious significance from the past
translation at LacusCurtius. Euripides, Heracleides 1032–1034; Aeschylus, Eumenides 763ff. Herodotus, Histories 8.134 and Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes
Relic
German scholar of classical Greek studies (1797–1840)
for many years. Müller also published an admirable translation of the Eumenides of Aeschylus with introductory essays (1833). This was the object of a
Karl_Otfried_Müller
Series of paintings made by Gustav Klimt
three goddesses of Truth, Justice, and Law look on. They are shown as the Eumenides, punishing the condemned man with an octopus's deadly embrace. The conflict
Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings
Klimt_University_of_Vienna_Ceiling_Paintings
Passing of traits to offspring from the species' parents or ancestor
Archived from the original on May 7, 2019. Retrieved March 26, 2013. Eumenides 658–661 Snow, Kurt (October 1, 2007). "Antoni van Leeuwenhoek's Amazing
Heredity
Play written by Eugene O'Neill
Much like the Aeschylus plays Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, these three plays by O'Neill are correspondingly titled Homecoming, The
Mourning_Becomes_Electra
17th-century French dramatist (1639–1699)
the unity of place a general feature of Attic tragedy. Æschylus's The Eumenides has two settings and in The Suppliants of Euripides, it is sometimes impossible
Jean_Racine
specific characters and events in a play, such as the Furies in Aeschylus' Eumenides and Pentheus and Cadmus in Euripides' The Bacchae. Worn by the chorus
Theatre_of_ancient_Greece
Ancient Greek city at the southern entrance of the Hellespont
5 ext. 1, Polyaenus, Strategmata 1.25.1, Schol. (vetus) in Aeschylus, Eumenides 398c, Suda s.v. Πιττάκος. Omission in Herodotus: Plutarch, On the Malice
Sigeion
Comedy by Aristophanes
the second half of the play follows a similar structure to the trial in Eumenides, the third play in The Oresteia. The cloak scene after the trial in The
The_Wasps
substantiates one of her chief concerns. This book compares Aeschylus's Eumenides with themes in T. S. Eliot's The Family Reunion, the "modern play" which
Maud_Bodkin
Rhetorical device
which means 'opposite words'. Some euphemisms are antiphrasis, such as "Eumenides" 'the gracious ones' to mean the Erinyes, deities of vengeance. "Take
Antiphrasis
Ancient Greek goddess of mischief
Aeschylus, Agamemnon, in Aeschylus: Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation-Bearers, Eumenides, edited and translated by Alan H. Sommerstein, Loeb Classical Library
Ate_(mythology)
Opera by Darius Milhaud
Libation Bearers), dates from 1915–16. The very extensive third part, Les Euménides (The Furies), was completed in 1923. The opera was partially performed
L'Orestie_d'Eschyle
Topics referred to by the same term
series by Jim Butcher The Furies (band), an American indie rock band The Eumenides, or The Furies, a play by Aeschylus Female Furies, a group of women warriors
Furies_(disambiguation)
Type of legal trial
institution of trial by jury was ritually depicted by Aeschylus in The Eumenides, the third and final play of his Oresteia trilogy. In the play, the innovation
Jury_trial
King of Olympia and brother of Atreus in Greek mythology
the curse on the house of Atreus, as described in Aeschylus' play The Eumenides. However, other stories say that when Aletes and Erigone came of age and
Thyestes
French writer (born 1937)
Soleil, 1987. On ne part pas, on ne revient pas, Des femmes, 1991. Les Euménides d'Eschyle (traduction), Théâtre du Soleil, 1992. L'Histoire (qu'on ne
Hélène_Cixous
British author, puppeteer and professor of drama (1931–1990)
and serious drama (1964) The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers and Eumenides, English translation (1964) An introduction to the Greek Theater (1967)
Peter_Arnott
English actor (1941–2014)
Atreus (1968), which comprised three classics: Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides. In 1999 and 2000, he played the role of Malvolio in Guthrie Theater's
Charles_Keating_(actor)
EUMENIDES
EUMENIDES
Female
Greek
(Ἀληκτώ) Greek name ALEKTO means "unceasing." In Greek mythology, this is the name of one of the Furies (Gr. Erinyes, Eumenides). Virgil named two others: Megaira "grudge," and Tisiphone "murder-retribution."
EUMENIDES
EUMENIDES
Girl/Female
Muslim/Islamic
Bond tie
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, from an ethnic byname, from Old French waleis, WALLACE means "foreigner, stranger," especially Celtic or Roman.
Girl/Female
Indian
Hopeful
Girl/Female
Afghan, Arabic
Princess
Boy/Male
Muslim/Islamic
Someone with two beautiful eyes
Boy/Male
English
Lives at the church hill.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim
Fate; Destiny
Boy/Male
Hindu
Conqueor of the three worlds
Biblical
possessor of destruction or of a thing cursed,Lord of Hermon
Boy/Male
Muslim
Clear, Manifest, Witnessed
EUMENIDES
EUMENIDES
EUMENIDES
EUMENIDES
EUMENIDES
n. pl.
A euphemistic name for the Furies of Erinyes.
n.
pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.