god
Erinys
also: the Fury
An avenging Fury; in the Oedipus she is summoned as bridesmaid of the incestuous marriage and rises among the underworld powers.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §73 the Fury
An Erinys (Fury), the avenging spirit that scorches proud and overweening houses.
- Hercules on Oeta §599 The Fury holds the gilded threshold
The Erinys (Fury), here the spirit of discord and ruin that haunts the palaces of kings.
- Octavia §1 grim Fury
An Erinys (Fury), one of the underworld goddesses of vengeance; the 'Stygian' marriage-torch she carries marks a wedding doomed to disaster.
- Oedipus §154 Sisters
The Furies, who carry the Tartarean torch up among the living.
- Oedipus §569 Erinys
An avenging Fury, first of the personified horrors that rise from the opened earth.
- Thyestes §249 Erinys
An avenging Fury; Atreus summons the 'discordant Erinys' to fill him with greater frenzy.