| Furies, Greek Erinyes, also called Eumenides, in Greco-Roman mythology, the chthonic goddesses of vengeance. |
| The Eumenides accordingly do not recognize the right of the father and husband. |
| Curious and willing, Oedipus asks how he can do this and appease the Eumenides, whose sacred grove he violated after first entering Colonus. |
| The Eumenides shows the Furies in pursuit of Orestes, who is protected by the younger god Apollo. |
| The erinyes or Eumenides are the deities whose business it is to punish, in hades, the crimes committed upon earth. |
| They turned the robes inside out in one graceful gesture, revealing pink undercloaks as they changed into Eumenides. |
