Arae
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In Greek mythology, the Arae (; ) 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. They can also curse men such that the cattle of the sun god Helios would have done if they were harmed by any man, as in Homer's Odyssey.
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- Mythology
- Bacchylides' account
- Aeschylus's accounts
- Suda
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In Greek mythology, the Arae (; ) 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. They can also curse men such that the cattle of the sun god Helios would have done if they were harmed by any man, as in Homer's Odyssey.
==Mythology== The Arae are sometimes identified with the Erinyes.
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