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Eumenides (1)

The Kindly Ones; three of the daughters of Nyx (Night); Alekto (Alecto), Megaera and Tisiphone.

They are called by many names but are usually referred to as the Furies; they are also known as the Erinys (Mist-Walkers) and the Semnai (the Holy); they are depicted as winged women of fierce countenance but, according to Pausanias (fl. 160 CE), their images on the Akropolis (Acropolis) at Athens were not fierce or supernatural.

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