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Eumenides, also called Erinnyes, and by the Romans FURIAE or DIRAE, were originally nothing but a personification of curses pronounced upon a guilty criminal. The name Erinnys, which is the more ancient one, was derived by the Greeks from the erin or ereuna, I hunt up or persecute, or from the Arcadian word erinue, I am angry; so that the Erinnyes were either the angry goddesses, or the goddesses who hunt up or search after the criminal. Servius makes a distinction, according to which they bore the name Dirae, when they were conceived as being in heaven by the throne of Zeus, Furiae, when conceived as being on earth, and Eumenides, as beings of the lower world. In the sense of curse or curses, the word Erinnys or Erinnyes is often used in the Homeric poems, and Aeschylus calls the Eumenides Arai that is, curses. You can also find tips of this book buying from Amazon this title as a DVD