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In Greek mythology, the Arae (/ˈɛəriː/) were female spirits of curses, particularly of the curses placed by the dead upon those guilty of their death; they were associated with the underworld. Also they can curse men such that the cattle of the sun god Hyperion would have done if they were harmed by any man, as in Homer's Odyssey.[1][2]
They are sometimes identified with the Erinyes.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ Bacchylides, Fragment 20a
- ^ Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 406
- ^ Aeschylus, Eumenides . 415 ff
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