A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. By various writers. Ed. by William Smith. Illustrated by numerous engravings on wood.

ERINNA; ERIS. 49
ERI'GONE CHpi)d6v.) 1. A daughter of'cobs, vol. i.'p. 50), of which the first has the genuine
Icarius, seduced by Bacchus, who came into her air of antiquity; but the other two, addressed to
father's house. (Ov.' Mlet. vi. 125; Hygin. Fab. Baucis, seem to be a later fabrication. She had a
130; comp. ICARIUS.) place in the Garland of:Meleager (v. 12).
2. A daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra, 2. A Greek poetess, who, if we may believe
and by Orestes the mother of Penthilus. (Paus. Eusebius (Chron. Arm., Syncell. p. 260, a., Hieron.)
ii. 18. ~ 5.) Hyginus (Fab. 122), on the other was contemporary with Demosthenes and Philip of
hand, relates that Orestes wanted to kill her like Macedon, in Ol. 107, B. c. 352. Several good schoher mother, but that Artemis removed her to At- lars, however, reject this statement altogether, and
tica, and there made her her priestess. Others only allow of one Erinna. (Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol.
state, that Erigone put an end to herself when she ii. p. 120; Welcker, de Erinna, Corinna, Wc. in
heard that Orestes was acquitted by theAreiopagus. Creuzer's Meletemata, pt. ii. p. 3; Richtelr, Sappho
(Dict. Cret. vi. 4.) A third Erigone is mentioned und Erinna; Schneidewin, Delect.- Poes. Graec.
by Servius. (Ad Virg. Eclog. iv. 6.) [L. S.] Eleg. ce.. p. 323; Idem, in Zimmermann's Zeit-.
ERI'GONUS, originally a colour-grinder to the schrift fair die Alterthumswissenschalft, 1837, p.
painter Nealces, obtained so much knowledge of 209; Bode, Gesch. d. Hell. Dichth. vol. ii. pt. 2,
his master's art, that he became the teacher of the p. 448.) [P. S.]
celebrated painter Pasias, the brother of the mo- ERINNYES. rEUMENIDAE.]
deller Aegineta. (Plin. xxxv. 1], s. 40. ~ 41.) ERIO'PIS ('EpUt7ris). There are four mythical
From this statement it follows that he flourished personages of this name. (Hom.ll. xiii. 697;'
about B. C. 240. [AEGINETA.] [P. S.] Schol. ad Pind. Pyth. iii. 14; Pans. ii. 3. ~ 7;
ERIGY'IUS ('Epyvtzos,'Epryv'os), a Mytile- Iesych. s. v.) [L. S.]
naean, son of Larichus, was an officer in Alexan- ERI'PHANIS ('HpLpavys), a melic poetess, and
der's army. He had been driven into banishment author of erotic poetry. One- particular kind of
by Philip because of his faithful attachment to love-song was called after her;'but only one line of
Alexander, and returned when the latter came to her's is preserved. in Athenaeus (xiv. p. 619'), the
the throne in B. C. 336. At the battle of Arbela, only ancient author that mentions her. [L. S.]
B. C. 331, he commanded the cavalry of the allies, E'RIPHUS'EpiLpos), an Athenian comic poet
as he did also when Alexander set out from Ec- of the middle comedy. According to Athenaeus, he
batana in pursuit of Dareius, B. C. 330. In the lived at the same time as Antiphanes, or onlya little
same year Erigyius was entrusted with the com- later, and he copied whole verses from Antiphanes.
mand of'one of the three divisions with which That he belonged to the middle comedy, is suffiAlexander invaded Hyrcania, and he was, too, ciently shewn by the extant titles of his plays,'
among the generals sent against Satibarzanes, whom namely, A2oAos, MeAfMioa, HeATraTrs. Eustathius'
he slew in battle with his own hand. [CARANUS, (ad Hornm. p. 1686. 43) calls him AdyLos d4p.
No. 3.] In 329, together with Craterus and (Athen. ii. p. 58, a., iii. p. 84, b. c., iv. pp. 134, c.,
Hephaestion, and by the assistance of Aristander 137, d., vii. p. 302, e., xv. p. 693, c.;, Antiatt.
the soothsayer, he endeavoured to dissuade Alex- p. 98. 26; Suidas, s. v.; Eudoc. p. 167: Meineke,
ander from crossing the Jaxartes against the Scy- Frag. Corn. Graec. vol. i. pp. 420, 421, iii. pp.
thians. In 328 he fell in battle against the 556-558; Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. ii. pp. 441,
Bactrian fugitives. (Arr. Anab. iii. 6, 11, 20, 23, 442.) [P.S.]
28, iv. 4; Diod. xvii. 57; Curt. vi. 4. ~ 3, vii. 3. ERIPHY'LE ('Epip6XAq), a daughter of Talaus
~ 2, 4. ~~ 32-40, 7. ~~ 6-29, viii. 2. ~ 40.) [E. E.] and Lysimache, and the wife of Amphiaraus, whom
ERINNA ("Hpvva). There. seem to have been she betrayed for the sake of the necklace of Hartwo Greek poetesses of this name. 1. A contem- monia. (Hom. Od. xi. 326; Apollod. i. 9. ~ 3;
porary and friend of Sappho (about B. C. 612), AMPH1ARAUS, ALCMAEON, HARMONIA.) [L. S.]
who died at the age of nineteen, but left behind ERIPHY'LUS, a Greek rhetorician, who is
her poems which were thought worthy to rank mentioned by Quintilian (x 6. ~ 4), but: is otherwith those of-Homer. Her poems were of the epic wise unknown. [L. S.]
class: the chief of them was entitled'HAcdtrV, ERIS (<Epis), the goddess who calls forth war
the Distaff': it consisted of three hundred lines, of and discord. According to the Iliad, she wanders
which only four are extant. (Stob. Flor. cxviii. 4; about, at first small and insignificant, but she soon
Athen. vii. p. 283, d.; Bergk, Poet. Lyr. Graec. p. raises her head up to heaven (iv. 441). She:is the
632.) It was written in a dialect which was a friend and sister of Ares, and with him she demixture of the Doric and Aeolic, and which was lights in the tumult of war, increasing the moaning'
spoken at Rhodes, where, or in the adjacent island of men. (iv. 445, v. 518, xx. 48.) She is insatiable'
of Telos, Erinna was born. She- is also called a in her desire for bloodshed, and after' all the other
Lesbian and a Mytilenaean, on account of her re- gods have withdrawn from the battle-field, she'
sidence'in Lesbos with Sappho. (Suidas, s. v.; still remains rejoicing over the havoc that has been
Eustath. ad. ii. 726, p. 326.) There are several made. (v. 518, xi. 3, &c., 73.):'According to Heepigrams upon Erinna, in which her praise is ce- siod (Theog. 225,, &c.), she i was a daughter of
lebrated, and her untimely death is lamented. Night,' and the poet describes her as the mother
(Brunck,Anal.vol.i.p. 241,n. 81,p.218,n, 35,vol.ii. of a variety of allegorical beings, which' are the'
p. 19, n. 47, vol. iii. p. 261, n. 523,524, vol. ii. p. 460.) causes or representatives of man's misfortunes. It
The passage last cited, which is from'the Eephrasis was Eris who threw the apple into the'assembly
of Christodorus (vv. 108-110) shews, that her of the gods, the cause of- so much suffering and
statue was erected in the gymnasium of Zeuxippus war. [PARIS.] Virgil introduces Discordia as a
at Byzantium. Her statue by Naucydes is men- being similar to the Homeric Eris; for Discordia
tioned by Tatian. (Orat. ad Graec. 52, p. 113, appears in company with'Mars, Bellona, and the
Worth.) Three epigrams in the Greek Anthology Furies, and Virgil is evidently imitating Homer.
are ascribed to her (Brunck, Anal. vol. i. p. 58; Ja- (Aen. viii. 702'; Serv. adAen.,i. 31, vi. 280.) [L. S.
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