Poena

"Punishment." A personification of retaliation, is sometimes mentioned as one being, and sometimes in the plural (Poenae). They belonged to the train of Dike, and are akin to the Erinyes.

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References

Sources

  • Aeschylus. Libation Bearers, 936, 947.
  • Cicero. Against Piso xxxvii, 91.
  • Pausanias. Description of Greece i, 43.7.
  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.