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The Furies represent a guilty conscience and Medusa represents stubbornness that turns the heart to stone.
As Orestes and the Furies confront each other, Athena arrives at the temple dressed in full battle armor.
When Indra slays Vrita, Brahmahatya, a terrible retributive apparition, like the Erinyes or Furies of Greek myth, pursues him.
He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk.
The Furies is not a Western where men in white hats face off men in black hats on the town square at noon.
The Eumenides shows the Furies in pursuit of Orestes, who is protected by the younger god Apollo.
Immediately after this, the avenging goddesses called Furies torment Orestes to the point of insanity.
As opera matured over the next 150 years, the dramatic duties that at first had been assigned to mere Shades and Furies were taken over by full-fledged gods and goddesses.
Once the Furies are unleashed in a situation like Syria, the president told his British guest, it can be hard to put things together.
Thus, the vile slug which passes through the heart of the world is the root of the pluralized 'I', he is the foundation of the Three Furies.
Are not perhaps his three daughters the Three Furies, those tempting females?
In contrast to young Apollo and Athena, the Furies represent the primitive past that needs to be defeated and tamed in order for civilization to progress.
Such was the case on May 24, when Boston bands Jaggery and the Furies played Beatnik's in Worcester.
Like the Furies, the Cheneys stand for unreason and emotionalism.
But it turns out The Furies of Maidan is not a figment of his imagination.
Josef's Dance of the Furies presumably refers to the Furies of antiquity.
The matricidal vengeance taken by Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is mentioned in passing, and the work ends with Athena's establishment of mortal justice and her conversion of the Furies into the more benign Eumenides.
For example, the ecstatic mania sent by Dionysus is different from the hallucinations sent by the Erinyes, the Furies who torture Orestes after his matricide.
At the end of July, a large crowd attended a show at the Japanese Hall in the east side of downtown to see a bill that included both the Furies and the Dishrags.
The land and its colours, moods, and furies possess the people of Charleville in South West Queensland.
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Examples from Classical Literature
In his theatric way he used to tell his intimates that he was haunted by all the Furies.
Yet for all this, his art is weaker far than Necessity, whereof the controllers are Fate and the unforgetting Furies.
The blacke infernall Furies, the erinyes, or goddesses of vengeance, who dwelt in Erebus.
In certain tragedies, these singers personated the Eumenides or Furies.
In Flaxman's drawing of the Eumenides of Aeschylus, Orestes supplicates Apollo, whilst the Furies sleep on the threshold.
Sparsit asked in a light conversational manner, after mentally devoting the whelp to the Furies for being so uncommunicative.
And their asylums would have been not for weak-minded souls, but for furies.
Here, in lower latitude, the rocks appear rather scorched by a torrid sun than lashed by winter rain and hibernal furies.
A case in point is Orestes pursued by the furies, as described by the poets.
He could only be kept from furies dangerous to himself by being given his own way in every detail.
And first he bellowed as a bull and then howled as a dog, for the furies, he said, did so.
Elisha may have shrunk from the unreined furies of the man whom he had sent his emissary to anoint.
Until the furies got hold of him he was a simple soul, content with simple things.
I felt ready to smile bitterly at its enchanting charm and glare viciously at its furies.
He looked as if he had known all the degradations and all the furies.
The Fates and the furies exchanged glances of astonishment and horror.
The furies were so dreaded that few dared so much as to name them.
And when he had been judged and loosed, yet the furies left him not.
Indeed, it seemed as though all the furies had combined to vex me.
So it is that the furies help Orestes to wreak vengeance on his mother, Clytaemnestra, for killing his father, Agamemnon.
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