Eumenides
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Eumenides may refer to:
  • Another name for the Erinyes
    Erinyes
    In Greek mythology the Erinyes from Greek ἐρίνειν " pursue, persecute"--sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses" -- were female chthonic deities of vengeance. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "those who beneath the earth punish whosoever has sworn a false oath"...

    , Greek deities of vengeance
  • The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus' Greek tragedy, the Oresteia
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