MYTHOLOGY
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Title: Orestes
perseguido por la furias
Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Date: 1862
Location: Chrysler EEUU
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The Furies are some of the
most ancient divinities, previous to Zeus and to the gods of the Olympus. They
symbolized the laws of the moral world and punished the hypocrites. They
specially avenged the crimes committed within families.
They are represented as
avenger divinities with snakes around their heads holding whips and torches in
their hands. On their backs, bird wings, some sources portray them in the shape
of body dog. They were born of the sperm and the blood that fell on Gaea when
Cronus castrated Uranus, his father.
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Title: Orestes
Pursued by the Furies
Artist: John Singer Satgent
Date: 1921
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Museum of times
Arts,
Boston
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There
are three Erinyes, Alecto, Tisíphone and Megaera .They lived in the Erebus (the
infernal darkness) and are represented as winged female demons, hair full of
snakes and with a dagger in one hand and a torch or a whip in the other.
They chase their victims
without rest up to turning them mad. They take care of the religious and civic
order, punishing with special attention the murder and the crimes against the
family
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Title: Furie
Artist: Master of the furies, Furienmeister
Date: ca. 1610-1620
Medium: Ivory statuette
Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum,
Vienna
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Later
it was thought they played the role of torturing of the dead in the underworld.
They are sometimes called Eumenides in the Oresteia
by Aeschylus. The Romans would identify them later as “the Furies”.
The
Furies were the infernal Roman divinities known as the Erinyes.
MEANING
The
expression “to be fuming” in Spanish is paraphrased by “to be a fury” means
getting mad at something. |
Title: Orestes Pursued by
the Furies
Artist: Carl
Rahl
Date: 1852
Medium: Oil on canvas
Location: Landesmuseum für Kunst und
Kulturgeschichte Oldenburg
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