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Alecto's job as a Fury is castigating the moral crimes (such as anger) of humans, especially if they are against others. Alecto's function is similar to Nemesis, with the difference that Nemesis's function is to castigate crimes against the gods, not mortals. Her punishment for mortals was Madness.
The Erinyes (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ n i. iː z / ih-RI-nee-eez; [1] Ancient Greek: Ἐρινύες, sg. Ἐρινύς Erinys), [2] also known as the Eumenides (Εὐμενίδες, the "Gracious ones") [a] and commonly known in English as the Furies, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology.
A 1610 depiction of a Fury from the Kunsthistorisches Museum. Horkos is the divine personification of, and fulfiller of, a particular kind of curse. That curse is the one a person makes against themselves, when swearing an oath, which takes effect if the oath is foresworn. [8] According to Hesiod, the Erinyes assisted in Horkos' birth. [9]
Lyssa (/ ˈ l ɪ s ə / LEE-sə; Ancient Greek: Λύσσα, romanized: Lússa, lit. 'rage, rabies'), also called Lytta (/ ˈ l ɪ t ə /; Ancient Greek: Λύττα, romanized: Lútta) by the Athenians, is a minor goddess in Greek mythology, the spirit of rage, fury, [2] and rabies in animals.
Athamas was formerly a Thessalian prince and the son of King Aeolus of Aeolia [2] and Enarete, daughter of Deimachus. [3] He was the brother of Salmoneus, Sisyphus, Cretheus, Perieres, Deioneus, Magnes, Calyce, Canace, Alcyone, Pisidice and Perimede.
Antonio Tempesta, The Fury Tisiphone at the Palace of Athamas. Tisiphone [1] (Ancient Greek: Τισιφόνη, romanized: Tisiphónē, "Avenger of murder"), [2] or Tilphousia, was one of the three Erinyes or Furies in Greek mythology. Her sisters were Alecto and Megaera. [3]
Zeus aiming his thunderbolt at a winged and snake-footed Typhon. Chalcidian black-figured hydria (c. 540–530 BC), Staatliche Antikensammlungen (Inv. 596). [1]Typhon (/ ˈ t aɪ f ɒ n,-f ən /; Ancient Greek: Τυφῶν, romanized: Typhôn, [tyːpʰɔ̂ːn]), also Typhoeus (/ t aɪ ˈ f iː ə s /; Τυφωεύς, Typhōeús), Typhaon (Τυφάων, Typháōn) or Typhos (Τυφώς ...
Despite his fury of war, Diomedes held back his sword so that the old man might speak. Ilioneus begged "Oh compassionate my suppliant hands! To slay the young and valiant is a glorious thing; but if you smite an old man, small renown waits on your prowess.