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![]() ![]() "When a messenger with gloomy countenance reports to a people dire disaster of its army's rout-one common wound inflicted on the State, while from many a home many a victim is devoted to death. The Erinyes as punishers of specific criminal acts are described in the sections which follow.Īeschylus, Agamemnon 638 ff (trans. ![]() They were particularly concerned with the crimes which most offended gods-patricide, matricide, betrayal of parents and family, murder, manslaughter, the breaking of oaths and crimes against the gods themselves. The Erinyes were goddesses who punished the impious and criminal. This page describes the crimes which provoked the wrath of the Erinyes.ĬLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES GODDESSES OF PUNISHMENT & RETRIBUTION ![]() THE ERINYES were three goddesses who avenged the crimes of murder, unfilial conduct, impiety and perjury. 435.Dark, Murky? Erinys, Apulian red-figure vase C4th B.C., Antikensammlung Berlin The true ends of Satire pursued by Boileau in France, v. The abuse of Satire in England, during the licentious reign of Charles II. Erasmus one of its principal restorers, v. Causes of the decay of literature, particularly of Satire, v. Roman Satirists, Lucilius, Ho∣race, Persius, Juvenal, v. The praise of virtue may be admitted with propriety, v. The variety of style and manner which these two subjects require, v. The different methods in which folly and vice ought to be chastised, v. Proper subjects of Satire are the manners of present times, v. Prudence in the application of wit and ridicule, whose province is, not to explore unknown, but to enforce known truths, v. Justice and truth its chief and essential property, v. Hence it appears that Satire may influence those who defy all laws human and di∣vine, v. It is the work of Satire to rectify this passion, to reduce it to its proper channel, and to convert it into an in∣centive to wisdom and virtue, v. And thus becomes the occasion of the greatest follies, vices, and mise∣ries, v. This passion, implanted in man as a spur to virtue, is generally perverted, v. ![]() The love of glory and fear of shame universal, ver. Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? CONTENTS. ![]()
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