god
The Furies
Furies
also: the hidden goddesses, arcanae deae
The avenging goddesses of blood-guilt (the Eumenides), Ovid's 'hidden goddesses' against whom the maddened Orestes dared raise weapons.
Reading notes
- The Loves §1.7 hidden goddesses
The Furies (Eumenides), avengers of kindred blood, against whom the frenzied Orestes dared to turn.
- The Heroides §6 the Fury
The Erinys, avenging spirit; in place of Juno and Hymen, a bloodstained Fury bore the torches at the doomed union with Medea.
- The Heroides §7 the Eumenides
The Furies (Eumenides), whose wailing at the cave-union was the sign of Dido's doom.
- The Heroides §11 black Furies
The Erinyes, avenging spirits with funeral torches, invoked by Canace for her own pyre.
- Ibis §3 prison
The river Styx and the snake-haired Furies who guard the prison-gates of the underworld are invoked as witnesses.
- Metamorphoses §1.5 the savage Fury
An Erinys (Fury), avenging spirit of crime; here the spirit of murderous violence that 'reigns' over the earth.
- Metamorphoses §8.215 Eumenides
The Furies (Eumenides), avenging goddesses, invoked by Althaea over her deed.
- Metamorphoses §9.262 the Eumenides
The Furies (Eumenides), avenging spirits who pursued Alcmaeon for his mother's murder.
- Metamorphoses §10.287 Eumenides
The Furies (Eumenides), whose cheeks first wept at Orpheus's song.
- Metamorphoses §10.302 one of the three sisters
One of the three Furies, who breathed the unnatural passion into Myrrha with a Stygian brand.