god
the Furies
also: Eumenides, Erinys
The Eumenides (Erinyes), avenging spirits of the underworld whom Juno summons to madden Hercules; their hair is snakes and their whips vipers.
Reading notes
- Agamemnon §782 The squalid sisters
The Furies (Erinyes), the avenging sisters with bloody scourges and half-burnt torches.
- Hercules (Mad) §87 the Eumenides
The Furies (Erinyes), avenging spirits roused from Tartarus, their hair aflame and their whips vipers; Juno's chosen agents of madness.
- Thyestes §68 Furies
The avenging underworld spirits (Erinyes) who pursue blood-guilt.