Furies

=Furies=

Three goddesses of vengeance: Tisiphone (avenger of murder), Megaera (the jealous) and Alecto (constant anger). They were also called the Daughters of the Night, but were actally the daughters of Uranus and Gaea. They resulted from a drop of Uranus blood falling onto the earth. They were placed in the Underworld by Virgil, tormenting evildoers and sinners. However, Greek writers saw them as pursuing bad people on Earth. The Furies are cruel, but are also renowned for being very fair.



The Furies are the advocates of Hades. Hades unleashes them on anybody he wants to be destroyed. The Furies, often confused with the three Fates, play a large role in novel The Lightning Thief. The three Fates decided your destiny and in the novel make re occurring appearances through the Demigods. For example, with Percy Jackson. Percy Jackson is attacked by the Furies more than once, in disguised of a masked Teacher at Yancy Academy, and on the bus during there excursion to the underworld.

http://www.in2greece.com/english/historymyth/mythology/names/furies.htm http://www.pantheon.org/articles/f/furies.html Riordan, Rick. //The Lightning Thief//. New York: Hyperion Books, 2006.

Rouse, WHD. //Gods, Heroes, and Men of Ancient Greece//. New York: New American Library, 2001**.**