Erinyes

[复]n.[希神]厄里倪厄斯(或译依理逆司,三个复仇女神的总称)

发音

US /ɪˈɹɪniˌiːz/

词形变化

Erinys

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    The Furies; the 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.

    宗教 神话 哲学

    2018, Stephen Rendall (translator), Jacques Jouanna, Sophocles: A Study of His Theater in Its Political and Social Context, [2008, Jacques Jouanna, Sophocle], Princeton University Press, page 393, First, he 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.

词源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Ἐρῑνύες (Erīnúes, literally “Avengers”).

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