See C.O. Muller, _Dissertations on the Eumenides of Aeschylus_, (Eng. tr., 1835); A. Rosenberg, _Die Erinyen_ (1874); J.E. Harrison, _Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion_ (1903); and _Journal of Hellenic Studies_, xix. p. 205, according to whom the Erinyes were primarily local ancestral ghosts, potent for good or evil after death, earth genii, originally conceived as embodied in the form of snakes, whose primitive haunt and sanctuary was the omphalos at Delphi; E. Rohde, _Psyche_ (1903); A. Rapp in Roscher's _Lexikon der Mythologie_, and J.A. Hild in Daremberg and Saglio's _Dictionnaire des antiquites_, s.v. FURIAE. ERIPHYLE, in Greek mythology, sister of Adrastus and wife of Amphiaraus. Having been bribed by Polyneices with the necklace of Harmonia, she persuaded her husband to take part in the expedition of the Seven against Thebes, although he knew it would prove fatal to him. Before setting out, the seer charged his sons to slay their mother as soon as they heard of his death. The attack on Thebes was repulsed, and during the flight the earth opened and swallowed up Amphiaraus together with his chariot. His son Alcmaeon, as he had been bidden, slew his mother, and was driven from place to place by the Erinyes, seeking purification and a new home (Apollodorus iii. 6. 7). ERIS, in Greek mythology, a sister of the war-god Ares (Homer, _Iliad_, iv. 440), and in the Hesiodic theogony (225) a daughter of Night. In the later legends of the Trojan War, Eris, not having been invited to the marriage festival of Peleus and Thetis, flings a golden apple (the "apple of discord") among the guests, to be given to the most beautiful. The claims of the three deities Hera, Aphrodite and Athena are decided by Paris in favour of Aphrodite, who as a reward assists him to gain possession of Helen (Hyginus, _Fab._ 92; Lucian, _Charidemus_, 17). Hesiod also mentions (_W. and D._ 24) a beneficent Eris, the personification of honourable rivalry. In Virgil (_Aeneid_, viii. 702) and other Roman poets Eris is represented by Discordia.