The Furies · Atlas

spoken of as

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Furies6 mentions

Iphigenia in Tauris (Greek) · De Rerum Natura (Latin) · Antigone (Greek) · Oedipus at Colonus (Greek) · Theogony (Greek) · Electra (Greek)

to send forth the Furies’ imitations.

iphigenia in tauris ¶

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.

theogony ¶

in the texts

Iphigenia in TaurisClassical · Greek

The chthonic goddesses of vengeance (Erinyes) who pursue Orestes for the murder of his mother and prosecute him at his Athenian trial.

Orestes:

iphigenia in tauris ¶

the goddesses were driving you for the sake of your mother.

iphigenia in tauris ¶

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.

iphigenia in tauris ¶

Against TimarchusClassical · Greek

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.

against timarchus ¶

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;

against timarchus ¶

OrationsImperial · Greek

Tragic avenging goddesses used as a simile for the destructive, sudden power of reputation.

Reputation resembles the Furies of the tragedies.

oration 66 ¶

ElectraClassical · Greek

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.

electra ¶

for she will prevent them, flickering with dreadful serpents, from touching you, as she stretches over your head her Gorgon-faced shield.

electra ¶

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.

electra ¶

OrestesClassical · Greek

Avenging deities who torment matricides, described by the Chorus as pursuing the mad Orestes and afflicting the house of Atreus.

by avenging fiends, this house has fallen, fallen, through blood, by reason of the hurling Myrtilus from the chariot.

orestes ¶

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!

orestes ¶

TheogonyClassical · Greek

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.

theogony ¶

De Rerum NaturaHellenistic · Latin

The mythological avenging goddesses, listed among the underworld terrors declared nonexistent.

Cerberus and Furies, and that Lack of Light

antoninus pius ¶

AntigoneClassical · Greek

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.

antigone ¶

Oedipus at ColonusClassical · Greek

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.

oedipus at colonus ¶