Eumenides

Also known as: Erinnyes · Family: Gods · Role: goddesses and protectors of the city · First appears: Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 6

Life events

• The Eumenides accept Athena's offered home and receive an honored civic place.(Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 6)
  • With: Athena
  • “Chor. Say I accept. What honour then is mine? Athena. That no one house apart from thee shall prosper.”
• Athena escorts the propitiated Eumenides to their new shrines and sanctuary.(Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 6 · 📍 Areopagos)
  • With: Athena
  • “Enter an array of women, young and old, in procession, leading the Erinnyes—now, as propitiated, the Eumenides or Gentle Ones—to their shrines”

Aeschylus, Eumenides — Scene 6

• patron: Athena (Athena grants and escorts the Eumenides to their new abode.) “I must march to show your chambers, By your escorts' torches holy;”
• friends with Athena “In this land dwelling thou new friends shalt gain.”

Also listed in Gods — Minor Figures

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Extracted from the original text of Greek Tragedy. Made with Rho MD.