Erinyes
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The Erinyes, also known as the Eumenides, are chthonic goddesses of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take
Clytemnestra tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes. Detail from an Apulian red-figure bell-krater, 380–370 BC.
Altemps, sleeping Erinyes
Shrine of Erinyes under Areopagus, Athens
Orestes at Delphi, flanked by Athena and Pylades, among the Erinyes and priestesses of the oracle. Paestan red-figure bell-krater, c. 330 BC.
Clytemnestra
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In Greek mythology, Clytemnestra was the wife of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, and the half-sister of Helen of Troy. With Agamemnon, she was the mother of Iphigeneia, Orestes, Electra, and Chrysothemis.
Erinyes
…Aeschylus's dramatic trilogy the Oresteia. In the first play, Agamemnon, King Agamemnon returns home from the Trojan War, where he is slain by his wife, Clytemnestra, who wants vengeance for her daughter Iphigenia, whom Agamemnon had sacrificed to obtain favorable winds to sail to Troy. In the second play, The…
Clytemnestra by John Collier, 1882.
Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, 1654 painting by Bernadino Mei
Murder of Agamemnon, painting by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1817)
Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau. Clytemnestra was killed by Orestes and the Furies tormented him for committing matricide.