Source-groundedThe Iliad
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Erinys

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Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
Erinys
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Character
Scope
Individual
Editorial note
Kept distinct from the plural Erinyes because this remembered story presents one singular agent who hears Althaea from Erebus; the source does not explicitly call it a deity.

Aliases

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Erinys that walks in darkness

Epithet · Remembered

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

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Erebus1 observation
·Remembered

In Phoenix’s remembered story, Erinys hears Althaea’s prayer from Erebus.

See evidence text
“His mother, grieving for the death of her brother, prayed the gods, and beat the earth with her hands, calling upon Hades and on awful Proserpine; she went down upon her knees and her bosom was wet with tears as she prayed that they would kill her son—and Erinys that walks in darkness and knows no ruth heard her from Erebus.”

Claims

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·Reported

Phoenix says the ruthless, darkness-walking Erinys hears Althaea from Erebus.

See evidence text
“Erinys that walks in darkness and knows no ruth heard her from Erebus”
·Reported

Agamemnon says the dark-walking Erinys was among the powers that struck him mad when he took Achilles’s awarded prize.

See evidence text
“Jove, and Fate, and Erinys that walks in darkness struck me mad when we were assembled on the day that I took from Achilles the meed that had been awarded to him”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

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·Remembered
“Erinys that walks in darkness and knows no ruth heard her from Erebus”
·Reported
“Erinys that walks in darkness struck me mad”

Passage preview

Book 9 · Passage 25

‘So long as Meleager was in the field things went badly with the Curetes, and for all their numbers they could not hold their ground under the city walls; but in the course of time Meleager was angered as even a wise man will sometimes be. He was incensed with his mother Althaea, and therefore stayed at home with his wedded wife fair Cleopatra, who was daughter of Marpessa daughter of Euenus, and of Ides the man then living. He it was who took his bow and faced King Apollo himself for fair Marpessa’s sake; her father and mother then named her Alcyone, because her mother had mourned with the plaintive strains of the halcyon-bird when Phoebus Apollo had carried her off. Meleager, then, stayed at home with Cleopatra, nursing the anger which he felt by reason of his mother’s curses. His mother, grieving for the death of her brother, prayed the gods, and beat the earth with her hands, calling upon Hades and on awful Proserpine; she went down upon her knees and her bosom was wet with tears as she prayed that they would kill her son—and Erinys that walks in darkness and knows no ruth heard her from Erebus.