{"id":45221,"date":"2021-03-26T01:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T05:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45221"},"modified":"2021-03-25T09:42:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-25T13:42:17","slug":"qotd-the-furies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2021\/03\/26\/qotd-the-furies\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The Furies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 15px 10px 0px\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-48672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400.png 400w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/QotD-thumbnail-400x400-50x50.png 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>In Greek and Roman mythology, the Furies were female spirits of justice and vengeance. They were also called the <em>Erinyes<\/em> (angry ones). Known especially for pursuing people who had murdered family members, the Furies punished their victims by driving them mad. When not punishing wrongdoers on earth, they lived in the underworld and tortured the damned.<\/p>\n<p>According to some stories, the Furies were sisters born from the blood of Uranus, the primaeval god of the sky, when he was wounded by his son Cronus*. In other stories, they were the children of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythencyclopedia.com\/knowledge\/Nyx.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nyx<\/a> (night). In either case, their primaeval origin set them apart from the other deities of the Greek and Roman pantheons.<\/p>\n<p>Most tales mention three Furies: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alecto\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Alecto<\/a> (endless), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythencyclopedia.com\/knowledge\/Tisiphone.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Tisiphone<\/a> (punishment), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mythencyclopedia.com\/knowledge\/Megaera.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Megaera<\/a> (jealous rage). Usually imagined as monstrous, foul-smelling hags, the sisters had bats&#8217; wings, coal-black skin, and hair entwined with serpents. They carried torches, whips, and cups of venom with which to torment wrongdoers. The Furies could also appear as storm clouds or swarms of insects.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Currie, <a href=\"https:\/\/jaycurrie.wordpress.com\/2018\/10\/06\/character-meets-the-furies\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Character meets the Furies&#8221;, <em>Jay Currie<\/em><\/a>, 2018-10-08.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Greek and Roman mythology, the Furies were female spirits of justice and vengeance. They were also called the Erinyes (angry ones). Known especially for pursuing people who had murdered family members, the Furies punished their victims by driving them mad. When not punishing wrongdoers on earth, they lived in the underworld and tortured the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1526,7,41,11],"tags":[822],"class_list":["post-45221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-greece","category-history","category-quotations","category-religion","tag-mythology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bLn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64853,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45221\/revisions\/64853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}