According to Pausanias, the treacherous Polyxo sent handmaidens disguised as these characters to hang Helen. In the Aeneid, one of them appears to Turnus in the guise of Juno's aged priestess Calybe, and inspires Queen Amata to pretend to be in the grips of a Bacchus-induced frenzy. They had a sanctuary next to the Finger Shrine, which marks the spot where some of them tur
According to Pausanias, the treacherous Polyxo sent handmaidens disguised as these characters to hang Helen. In the Aeneid, one of them appears to Turnus in the guise of Juno's aged priestess Calybe, and inspires Queen Amata to pretend to be in the grips of a Bacchus-induced frenzy. They had a sanctuary next to the Finger Shrine, which marks the spot where some of them turned white when a hero bit off his own finger. That hero asked the Delphic Oracle for advice on ridding himself of them after killing the lover of Aegisthus. FTP, name these avengers of blood guilt, sometimes identified as Megaera, Allecto, and Tisiphone, who hounded Orestes for the murder of Clytemnestra.
According to Pausanias, the treacherous Polyxo sent handmaidens disguised as these characters to hang Helen.
the Furies or Erinyes (prompt on Eumenides, Kindly Ones, or Solemn Ones)