Ponerse como una furia

TO BE A FURY- TO BE FURNING

MYTHOLOGY

Title: Orestes perseguido por la furias

Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Date: 1862

Location: Chrysler EEUU

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.

Title: Orestes Pursued by the Furies

Artist: John Singer Satgent

Date: 1921

Medium: Oil on canvas

Location: Museum of times Arts, 

Boston

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

Title: Furie

Artist: Master of the furies, Furienmeister

Date: ca. 1610-1620

Medium: Ivory statuette

Location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, 

Vienna

Later it was thought they played the role of torturing of the dead in the underworld. They are sometimes called Eumenides in the Oresteiaby 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