How is furious related to greek mythology

In other stories, they were the children of Nyx night. In either case, their primeval origin set them apart from the other deities of the Greek and Roman pantheons. Most tales mention three Furies: Allecto endless , Tisiphone punishment , and Megaera jealous rage. Usually imagined as monstrous, foul-smelling hags, the sisters had bats' wings, coal-black skin, and hair entwined with serpents.

They carried torches, whips, and cups of venom with which to torment wrongdoers. The Furies could also appear as storm clouds or swarms of insects. Although the Furies seemed terrifying and sought vengeance, they were not considered deliberately evil. On the contrary, they represented justice and were seen as defenders of moral and legal order. They punished the wicked and guilty without pity but the good and innocent had little to fear from them. The Furies appear in many myths and ancient literary works.

They have a prominent role in Eumenides, a play written by the Greek dramatist Aeschylus. Megaera releases another swarm of parasites that burrow into the giant's skin.

The arm splits in half to reveal a beastly monster inside. The Fury then leaves the scene as the mutated hand attacks Kratos. Megaera continues to taunt Kratos as he continues to pursue her throughout the Prison of the Damned. Eventually, Kratos comes across a house full of women who wanted to sleep with him.

However, this was revealed to be an illusion made by Tisiphone, which Kratos realized after he noticed that Tisiphone is wearing the ring of his wife Lysandra. Kratos attacks Tisiphone, breaking the illusion, but she escapes his clutches and watches as Megaera charges into Kratos and takes the battle out of the house and onto a large platform hanging from Aegeon. Megaera's parasites then infect the mouth of Aegeon himself, forcing Kratos into an epic battle against the head of the Hecatonchires.

He then attacks Megaera once more, who is residing on Aegeon's eye. After a brief struggle, Kratos stabs Megaera in the chest and tosses her off the Hecatonchires. Kratos then dives down after Megaera and, just as the pair smash against a lower platform, he drives his blades into Megaera's chest, killing her instantly.

Kratos then recovers The Amulet of Uroborus. Shortly after killing Megaera, Kratos enters a small temple occupied by the King of Sparta , who shows his respect to Kratos and compliments him on his work for Sparta. However, Kratos notices Lysandra's ring on the King's finger, realizes this is but another illusion and attacks the King. The illusion ceases as the King is revealed to be Tisiphone, who promptly flees from Kratos to a separate part of the Prison.

Once he's caught up with Tisiphone, she orders her phoenix to attack Kratos again, but this only allows him to retrieve the Oath Stone of Orkos. Tisiphone then enters Alecto's Chamber and Kratos pursues her. Within the chamber, Kratos finds his daughter Calliope sleeping soundly and his wife Lysandra waiting for him. As he prepares to sleep with Lysandra, he discovers all around him is an illusion. Lysandra is revealed to be Alecto, who promises Kratos that if he remains in servitude to Ares, the Furies will provide him with endless illusions of his wife to keep him happy.

Kratos coldly rebuffs Alecto, infuriating her and prompting both her and Tisiphone to kill Kratos once and for all. As Tisiphone created the illusion that Alecto's Chamber was a giant whirlpool , Alecto morphed back into her sea-monster form and attacked Kratos. After a long battle against the sisters, Kratos heavily injures Alecto's monster form by impaling a ship mast into her mouth and carving her skull open. The whirlpool-illusion fades back to Alecto's Chamber as the weakened Fury Queen resorts to her human form.

As Kratos approaches Alecto, Tisiphone and her pet attack him once more. Kratos kills Daimon and started beating Tisiphone to death as she formed several illusions, including the King of Sparta telling him he was not fit to be a Spartan and Kratos himself, telling him that he lost everything because of his own actions.

Kratos then began to choke Tisiphone. However, she formed an illusion to become Lysandra, briefly stopping Kratos. However, Kratos managed to see through the illusion, as well as the illusion of the Village Oracle. She told Kratos that his wife and child were not at the temple where they died by chance and he killed her by breaking her neck. As the last fury lies dying, Alecto promises Kratos that her death will not free him from his madness.

Kratos then finishes her off and flees as the chamber begins to collapse ending the furies judgement for good. After he kills the Furies, Kratos meets with Orkos, who reveals that the Furies made Orkos the oath-keeper of Kratos once more just before their deaths.

Orkos adds that in order for Kratos to finally be free, he must kill Orkos. That is, the care and love of parents towards their children as well as vice versa. In addition, the Furies punished and persecuted vengefully all those who had committed murder, were obsessed with hatred and malice, committed perjury or were deceitful.

They also punished all acts that were contrary to the natural order and harmony of the world. Furies were going so far as to punish even those who grabbed the chicks from the birds' nests. We can say that, through the Furies, the ancient Greeks were symbolizing the remorse and guilt that filled the soul and mind of an injustice, an evil or a criminal and that lead to their destruction, proving that the eye of divine justice sees everything and doling everyone rightly with the remuneration they deserve.

None culprit is saved from their abysmal revenge, even though he may believe that he is safe. All of a sudden, the terrifying Furies lass out towards him, not leaving him in peace, plundering his house, kicking him out of there and pursuing him, until he drops weary and crazy from the songs that constantly ring to his ears. Euripides says Furies were three: Alecto anthropomorphism of rage and mania , Tisiphone anthropomorphism of revenge to killings and Megaera anthropomorphism of hatred and envy.

Alecto is the Fury that delivers the punishment of moral crimes such as anger , especially if directed against other people.

The power is similar to Nemesis, except that the power of the latter is to punish crimes against the gods. In Greek mythology, Megaera not to be confused with Megara is specifically associated with jealousy and envy the etymology of the word and punished especially the marital infidelity. The Fury Tisiphone, as implied by her name, is believed that was acting as a punisher of the murderers. A similar threat was hanging over Telemachus if he chose to drive Penelope away from the family home.

The mother of Meleager invokes the Furies against her son, who had killed her brothers. Furies, being vigilantes of the most horrible of all crimes, patricide, served as inspiration to Greek tragedians, especially in the myths of Orestes and Oedipus. The misfortunes of Oedipus come from the fact that, unintentionally, had been found guilty towards his parents. In the third tragedy of Aeschylus' Oresteia trilogy, Furies persecute Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra for the murder of his mother.

In another legend, Megaera, lashed so much the women of ancient Nysa until they gone mad and killed their own children.