Megaera

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Megaera:

see FuriesFuries
or Erinyes
, in Greek and Roman religion and mythology, three daughters of Mother Earth, conceived from the blood of Uranus, when Kronos castrated him. They were powerful divinities that personified conscience and punished crimes against kindred blood,
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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.

Megaera

one of the three Furies, vengeful deities who punish evil-doers. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 274]

See: Anger

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(80) Mike Pincombe, 'Tragic Inspiration in Jasper Heywood's Translation of Seneca's Thyestes: Melpomene or Megaera?', Handbook of Tudor Drama, 531.

Defining Tudor Drama

In order to consummate their desires, the lovers rise from the cave 'up through the chamber flore' (in Tancred's description) (iv.2.60),36 thus identifying themselves visually with Megaera, another demonized female, who 'ariseth out of hell' (iv.1 SD).

Gismond of Salerne: an Elizabethan and Cupidean tragedy

Megaera, Alecto, and Tisiphone, the Furies, tower warders of the City of Dis.

The Divine Comedy

"The spitting woman, an image of the Megaera, stands before the barrel of his gun- his sight is pointing straight into her mouth, into the center of that slobbering hole.

Male fantasies: volume I: women, floods, bodies, history

In some accounts there were three, named Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera.

Erinyes

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