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Megaera

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Megaera: see Furies Furies or Erinyes , in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, three daughters of Mother Earth, conceived from the blood of Uranus, when Kronos castrated him.
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Megaera
one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]
See : Anger
Megaera 

(Megara), in ancient Greek mythology, one of the Erinyes (called the Furies by the Romans). They were goddesses of vengeance who pursued the guilty one and drove him insane. In the figurative sense, an evil and shrewish woman.
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Like the Chorus at the end of each act; Megaera, the Fury from Thyestes; the Messenger who relates the extreme violence that happens offstage; stichomythia and the numerous verbal borrowings from Senecan tragedies, this Cupid reflects the ongoing fascination with Seneca that defined Inns of Court drama between the 1560s and 1580s.
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