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Headword:
*persefo/nh
Adler number: pi,1373
Translated headword: Persephone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An underworld spirit.[1]
Electra says:[2] "O house of Hades and Persephone! O Hermes of the Underworld and holy Revenge[3] and divine Furies! You who watch over those dying unjustly and those being robbed of a marriage bed: Come! Help avenge the murder of our father!"
Greek Original:*persefo/nh: kata/geios dai/mwn. *)hle/ktra fhsi/: w)= dw=m' *)ai/+dou kai\ *persefo/nhs, w)= xqo/ni' *(ermh= kai\ po/tni' *)ara\ semnai/ t' *)erinnu/es, ai(\ tou\s a)di/kws qnh/skontas o(ra=te tou/s t' eu)na\s u(pokleptome/nous: e)/lqet', a)rh/cate patro\s fo/non h(mete/rou.
Notes:
OCD4 s.v. The name has variant spellings: cf.
phi 231.
[1] Similarly ('cf.') in the
Ambrosian Lexicon, according to Adler.
[2] In
Sophocles,
Electra 110-16 (here slightly compressed). See web address 1.
[3] LSJ s.v.
a)ra/: "personified as the goddess of destruction and revenge" (web address 2). See also
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 418, but contrast
Aeschylus,
Eumenides 417 and
Seven Against Thebes 70.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; ethics; mythology; religion; tragedy; women
Translated by: Samuel Huskey on 7 October 2000@23:24:28.
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