Dread Goddesses
deity figure · 4 works · 4 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Eumenides · the Furies · Awful Goddesses · Great Goddesses · black-skinned avenging spirits · daughters of Earth and Darkness · dread goddesses · maidens · the Eumenides · the dreadful goddesses
spoken of as
1 expressionThe Furies“Eumenides”2 mentions
Orestes (Greek) · On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)
I am ashamed to name the goddesses, whose terrors are chasing him—the Eumenides.
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Greek avenging goddesses (also called the Furies), whose shrines at Athens and among the Romans are cited
And if these are goddesses, whose shrine is both at Athens and among us, as I interpret it, the grove of Furina, then the Furies are goddesses — spies, I suppose, and avengers of crime and wickedness.
Against Meidias
Divine figures to whom Demosthenes helped inaugurate a sacrifice.
he raised no objection when I was chosen with two colleagues to inaugurate the sacrifice to the Dread Goddesses.
Orestes
Avenging goddesses who pursue Orestes with madness as punishment for his mother's murder.
I am ashamed to name the goddesses, whose terrors are chasing him—the Eumenides.
you black-skinned avenging spirits, that dart along the spacious air, exacting a penalty for blood, a penalty for murder, I beg you, I beg you!
they will kill me, the hounds of hell, death’s priestesses with glaring eyes, the dreadful goddesses.
Oedipus at Colonus
The dread local goddesses of the inviolable grove at Colonus, associated with Earth and Darkness and approached by Oedipus as a suppliant.
We call them Eumenides, so that with well-wishing power they may receive the suppliant as his saviors.
Then, goddesses, according to the word of Apollo, give me at last some way to accomplish and close my course—unless, perhaps, I seem too lowly, enslaved as I am evermore to woes the sorest on the earth.
on reaching my goal in a land where I should find a seat of the Awful Goddesses and a shelter for foreigners, there I should close my weary life, with profit, through my having fixed my abode there, for those who received me, but ruin for those who sent me forth, who drove me away.