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Definitions of furies in various dictionaries:
noun - a feeling of intense anger
noun - state of violent mental agitation
noun - the property of being wild or turbulent
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| Fearing their vengeful wrath, the Greeks called them Eumenides, which means "The Kindly Ones" |
| Tisiphone, the blood avenger; Alecto, the persevering avenger; & Magaera, the jealous |
| These terrible goddesses of punishment had eyes that wept tears of blood |
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| Plural form of fury. |
| wild or violent anger. |
| extreme strength or violence in an action or a natural phenomenon. |
| Wild or violent anger. |
| Extreme strength or violence in an action or a natural phenomenon. |
| A spirit of punishment, often represented as one of three goddesses who pronounced curses on the guilty and inflicted famines and pestilences. The Furies were identified at an early date with the Eumenides. |
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| In Greek mythology the Erinyes (; sing. Erinys ; Greek: [], pl. of [], Erinys), also known as the Furies, were female chthonic deities of vengeance; they were sometimes referred to as "infernal goddesses" ( ). A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath". Walter Burkert suggests they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath". They correspond to the Dirae in Roman mythology. The Roman writer Maurus Servius Honoratus wrote that they are called "Eumenides" in hell, "Furiae" on earth, and "Dirae" in heaven.According to Hesiod's Theogony, when the Titan Cronus castrated his father, Uranus, and threw his genitalia into the sea, the Erinyes (along with the Giants and the Meliae) emerged from the drops of blood which fell on the earth (Gaia), while Aphrodite was born from the crests of sea foam. According to variant accounts, they emerged from an even more primordial levelfrom |