doi:10.1484/J.EUPHR.5.12529engVicente Sánchez, Ana CristinaThe Adjectives 'hosios' and 'anhosios' referring to Divinities in EuripidesART-2019-118558The use of ὅσιος (“holy”) and ἀνόσιος (“unholy”)2 applied to divinities, which Euripides gives us three examples of, seems peculiar and is highly infrequent in archaic and classical literature. The first example is found in Alcestis (E. Alc. 10), where ὅσιος refers to Apollo who has been punished by Zeus and has to work in servitude to a mortal. It is Apollo himself who, in the prologue, says that his behaviour towards Admetus has been ὅσιος. Secondly, in Heraclidae, Alcmene considers that it is Zeus who should know whether his behaviour towards her is ὅσιος (E. Heracl. 719). Finally, Orestes claims that Apollo must be condemned and considered ἀνόσιος because of Clytemnestra’s murder (E. Or. 595-596)...2019http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/14915310.1484/J.EUPHR.5.12529http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/149153oai:zaguan.unizar.es:149153info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MINECO/FFI2016-75632-PEuphrosyne 47 (2019), 273-278All rights reservedhttp://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess