The Furies
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Furies · the Furies · Furies of Hades and of the gods · Reputation resembles the Furies · avenging destroyers · avenging fiends · death-goddesses · dread goddesses of death · hell's dragon · her scourge
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Iphigenia in Tauris (Greek) · De Rerum Natura (Latin) · Antigone (Greek) · Oedipus at Colonus (Greek) · Theogony (Greek) · Electra (Greek)
O Phoebus, where have you again brought me into the snare, by your oracles, since I avenged my father’s blood by the murder of my mother, and was driven by successive Furies, a fugitive, away from the land, and completed many winding courses;
The Erinyes“Furies”1 mention
Theogony (Greek)
for all the bloody drops that gushed forth Earth received, and as the seasons moved round she bore the strong Erinyes and the great Giants with gleaming armour, holding long spears in their hands and the Nymphs whom they call Meliae all over the boundless earth.
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Iphigenia in Tauris
The chthonic goddesses of vengeance (Erinyes) who pursue Orestes for the murder of his mother and prosecute him at his Athenian trial.
When I came to the hill of Ares to stand my trial, I took one seat, and the eldest of the Furies took the other.
When my mother’s evil deeds, that I cannot speak of, came into my hands, I was driven to flight by the Furies’ pursuit;
it will have its name from the Tauric land and from your labors, which you have endured, wandering through Hellas and goaded by the Furies.
Against Timarchus
Mythological avenging spirits invoked by Aeschines only to be reinterpreted metaphorically as the internal force of lust and desire that drives men to crime.
nor that ungodly men are, as in tragedy, driven and chastised by the Furies with blazing torches in their hands.
No, the impetuous lusts of the body and insatiate desire—these it is that fill the robbers’ bands, that send men on board the pirates’ boats;
Orations
Tragic avenging goddesses used as a simile for the destructive, sudden power of reputation.
Reputation resembles the Furies of the tragedies.
Electra
The Erinyes/Furies, the avenging goddesses of blood-guilt who will pursue Orestes for killing his mother.
And the dread goddesses of death, the one who glare like hounds, will drive you up and down, a maddened wanderer.
But go towards Athens, seeking to escape these hounds of hell, for they are pursuing you fearfully, the dark-skinned ones, with snakes for hands, holding a reward of dreadful pains.
Then the dread goddesses, stricken with grief at this, will sink into a cleft of the earth beside this hill, a holy, revered prophetic shrine for mortals.
Orestes
Avenging deities who torment matricides, described by the Chorus as pursuing the mad Orestes and afflicting the house of Atreus.
what a dreadful crime he committed, and now is raving mad, a prey to the Furies, whirling blood with racing eyes, the son of Agamemnon!
by avenging fiends, this house has fallen, fallen, through blood, by reason of the hurling Myrtilus from the chariot.
Theogony
Avenging goddesses born from the blood of Heaven's castration received by Earth.
for all the bloody drops that gushed forth Earth received, and as the seasons moved round she bore the strong Erinyes and the great Giants with gleaming armour, holding long spears in their hands and the Nymphs whom they call Meliae all over the boundless earth.
De Rerum Natura
The mythological avenging goddesses, listed among the underworld terrors declared nonexistent.
Cerberus and Furies, and that Lack of Light
Antigone
Avenging underworld powers said to wait for Creon because he buried the living and denied burial to the dead.
For these crimes the avenging destroyers, the Furies of Hades and of the gods, lie in ambush for you, waiting to seize you in these same sufferings.
Oedipus at Colonus
Avenging divine powers associated with Oedipus' curse and Polyneices' fatal path.
This path now will be my destiny, ill-fated and evil, because of my father here and his Furies.