Description

Erinyes Ancient Greek Female Furie Mask Sculpture – Greek Handmade Alabaster Wall Statue
Height 12cm
Weight
Categoty: Statues, Sculptures, Archaic, Greek Roman Mythology
Material: Alabaster
Alabaster handmade statue on my small workshop.
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The Erinyes also known as the Furies, were female chthonic deities of vengeance in ancient Greek religion and mythology. A formulaic oath in the Iliad invokes them as "the Erinyes, that under earth take vengeance on men, whosoever hath sworn a false oath". Walter Burkert suggests they are "an embodiment of the act of self-cursing contained in the oath". They correspond to the Dirae in Roman mythology. The Roman writer Maurus Servius Honoratus wrote (ca. 600 AD) that they are called "Eumenides" in hell, "Furiae" on earth, and "Dirae" in heaven