Περσεφόνη

Persephone

Translated by Samuel Huskey7 Oct 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

3 notes · 45 words
An underworld spirit.1
Electra says:2 "O house of Hades and Persephone! O Hermes of the Underworld and holy Revenge3 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 · Adler’s text

Περσεφόνη· κατάγειος δαίμων. Ἠλέκτρα φησί· ὦ δῶμ' Ἀΐδου καὶ Περσεφόνης, ὦ χθόνι' Ἑρμῆ καὶ πότνι' Ἀρὰ σεμναί τ' Ἐριννύες, αἳ τοὺς ἀδίκως θνήσκοντας ὁρᾶτε τούς τ' εὐνὰς ὑποκλεπτομένους· ἔλθετ', ἀρήξατε πατρὸς φόνον ἡμετέρου.

Betacode
*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 (3)

  1. OCD4 s.v. The name has variant spellings: cf. phi 231.
  2. 1Similarly ('cf.') in the Ambrosian Lexicon, according to Adler. ↩
  3. 2In Sophocles, Electra 110-16 (here slightly compressed). See web address 1. ↩
  4. 3LSJ 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. ↩

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π1371Περσεὺς ΜακεδώνPerseus of Macedon, Perseus the Macedonianπ1372ΠερσεύςPerseusπ1373ΠερσεφόνηPersephoneπ1374ΠερσεῖδαιPerseidsπ1375ΠέρσηςPerses
Revision history7 revisions · last 23 Jan 2023
  1. cross-reference — Catharine Roth
  2. coding — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. Revised — David Whitehead
  5. coding, upgraded link, added keyword — Catharine Roth
  6. another note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. added bibliography and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  8. Translated — Samuel Huskey

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