These figures possessed the knife used to kill Itys, and earlier attended his parents' wedding as torchbearers.
These figures possessed the knife used to kill Itys, and earlier attended his parents' wedding as torchbearers. In the Orphic Hymns they are the children of Hades and Persephone, but the Theogony states that their siblings are the giants and the Meliae. Telemachus refused to force Penelope to remarry for fear that she would invoke these figures to curse him, an act performed by Oedipus on his sons. They were given patronship of Athens after losing a case in the Areopagus against Orestes, who was pursued by them after murdering his mother. For 10 points, Tisiphone, Megaira and Alekto were what trio of winged, whip-wielding goddesses who punished mortals for crimes?
These figures possessed the knife used to kill Itys, and earlier attended his parents' wedding as torchbearers.
{Furies} [or {Erinyes} (Er-in-yoo-es) or {Eumenides} or {Dirae}]