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Erinyes

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Canonical name
Erinyes
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Deity
Scope
Collective
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Aliases

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No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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Claims

2
·Hypothetical

If driven from the house, Penelope would invoke the Erinyes to avenge her.

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for my mother when she leaves the house will call on the Erinyes to avenge her; besides, it would not be a creditable thing to do
·Remembered

The Erinyes received the daughters of Pandareus as handmaids after storm winds spirited them away.

See evidence text
the storm winds came and spirited them away to become handmaids to the dread Erinyes

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

2
·Hypothetical
my mother when she leaves the house will call on the Erinyes to avenge her
·Reported
handmaids to the dread Erinyes

Passage preview

Book 2 · Passage 8

Telemachus answered, ‘Antinous, how can I drive the mother who bore me from my father’s house? My father is abroad and we do not know whether he is alive or dead. It will be hard on me if I have to pay Icarius the large sum which I must give him if I insist on sending his daughter back to him. Not only will he deal rigorously with me, but heaven will also punish me; for my mother when she leaves the house will call on the Erinyes to avenge her; besides, it would not be a creditable thing to do, and I will have nothing to say to it. If you choose to take offence at this, leave the house and feast elsewhere at one another’s houses at your own cost turn and turn about. If, on the other hand, you elect to persist in spunging upon one man, heaven help me, but Jove shall reckon with you in full, and when you fall in my father’s house there shall be no man to avenge you.’