In his theatric way he used to tell his intimates that he was haunted by all the Furies. |
Are not perhaps his three daughters the Three Furies, those tempting females? |
Once the Furies are unleashed in a situation like Syria, the president told his British guest, it can be hard to put things together. |
The Eumenides shows the Furies in pursuit of Orestes, who is protected by the younger god Apollo. |
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. |
He is pursued by the Furies, grotesque female divinities charged with the punishment of those who have shed the blood of kinfolk. |