- three-character
triptych of
Erinyes; in
Canto IX of the Inferno, they
confront the
poets at the
gates of the city of Dis.
Whilst the
Erinyes were
usually described...
-
nation was
harboring such a criminal, the
Erinyes would cause starvation and
disease to the nation. The
Erinyes were
dreaded by the
living since they embodied...
- monsters. The
Pythian priestess of
Apollo compares the
appearance of the
Erinyes,
cthonic goddesses of vengeance, with
those of
harpies in the following...
- Eumenides,
Orestes goes mad
after killing his
mother and is
pursued by the
Erinyes (Furies),
whose duty it is to
punish any
violation of the ties of family...
-
Oedipus has come with his
daughters Antigone and
Ismene as
suppliants of the
Erinyes and of Theseus, the king of Athens. Led by Antigone,
Oedipus enters the...
- romanized: Alēktṓ, lit. 'the
implacable or
unceasing anger') is one of the
Erinyes (Furies) in Gr**** mythology.
According to Hesiod,
Alecto was the daughter...
- and/or agriculture. This
makes some
deities such as Hades, ****phone, and
Erinyes more
likely to be
considered chthonic due to
their proximity to the underworld...
- Ur****, from Ur****'s blood,
which splattered onto the earth, came the
Erinyes (Furies), the Giants, and the Meliae. Also,
according to the Theogony,...
- with
Electra helping).
Before her death,
Clytemnestra cursed Orestes. The
Erinyes or Furies,
whose duty it is to
punish any
violation of the ties of family...
- being, and
sometimes in the
plural as
Poenai (Ποιναί) and are akin to the
Erinyes. Her
Roman equivalent may have been Ultio.[citation needed] The Gr**** word...
