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- Erinyes (Furies) - Mythopedia
The Erinyes (“Furies”) were terrifying sisters who acted as goddesses of vengeance and retribution From their grim home in the Underworld, the Erinyes punished crimes that violated the natural order—especially offenses against family members
- Eumenides - Mythopedia
The Eumenides is a tragedy composed by Aeschylus around 458 BCE It is the final entry in the tragic trilogy known as the Oresteia The play depicts Orestes’ trial and eventual acquittal for the murder of his mother Clytemnestra
- Clytemnestra – Mythopedia
Agamemnon’s murder was soon avenged by his son Orestes, who killed both Aegisthus and his mother Clytemnestra for their crimes But Orestes was pursued afterwards by the Erinyes (also known as the “Furies”), goddesses responsible for punishing wrongdoing and blood-guilt Clytemnestra appeared frequently in ancient literature
- Moirae (Fates) - Mythopedia
Other sources further specified that it was the Moirae who instructed the Erinyes (the “Furies”) on which mortals were to be punished for their crimes Eventually, the Moirae became identified with Heimarmene—a concept advanced by various philosophers, from the Presocratics to the Stoics, that morphed into a kind of universal fate or
- Minotaur - Mythopedia
The Minotaur was a hybrid monster (half-bull, half-man) born of the unorthodox union between the queen of Crete and a beautiful bull The Minotaur was hidden from the world in the Labyrinth, a giant maze, where it was eventually slain by the Athenian hero Theseus
- Harpies – Mythopedia
Etymology In antiquity, the term “Harpy” (Greek ἅρπυια, translit hárpyia; pl “Harpies,” Greek ἅρπυιαι, translit
- Phoebe - Mythopedia
Greek Hesiod (eighth seventh century BCE): Phoebe’s genealogy is outlined in the Theogony Aeschylus (ca 525 524 BCE–456 455 BCE): In the first lines of the tragedy Eumenides, Phoebe is said to have been the one who gave the oracle at Delphi to Apollo
- Lycurgus – Mythopedia
For example, Lyssa (the personification of madness) is said to destroy Lycurgus in the anonymous Hymn to Dionysus (GLP 129 39), while Lucan ascribes Lycurgus’ downfall to one of the Erinyes, or Furies (Civil War 1 572) ↩; Homer, Iliad 6 138–40
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