Dread Goddesses · Atlas

spoken of as

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The Furies“Eumenides”2 mentions

Orestes (Greek) · On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)

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in the texts

On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

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.

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Against MeidiasClassical · Greek

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.

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OrestesClassical · Greek

Avenging goddesses who pursue Orestes with madness as punishment for his mother's murder.

Orestes:

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Allow the son of Agamemnon to forget his wild whirling frenzy.

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Oedipus at ColonusClassical · Greek

The dread local goddesses of the inviolable grove at Colonus, associated with Earth and Darkness and approached by Oedipus as a suppliant.

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