PUBLISHED: Sep 18, 2013
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Humanities. A reference to the Furies in Greek & Roman Mythology The three terrible winged goddesses with serpentine hair, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone, who pursue and punish doers of unavenged crimes.
Classical myth the snake-haired goddesses of vengeance, usually three in number, who pursued unpunished criminals Also called Erinyes Eumenides