Alekto, unceasing in anger
oil on canvas
16" x 12"

It is not right to engage in reckless slaughter ... When they [the ghosts
of the murdered] are come to the throne of Awful Jove [Haides] and have set
forth all the sorrowful story of their dreadful end, the gate of death is opened
for them and they may return a second time [to the earth as vengeful ghosts];
one of the Sisters [Erinyes] is given them as a companion, and they range
together ... each involved in penalties the guilty souls of his own foes; they
rack them with various terrors after their deserving ...
- Valerius Flaccus, Agonautica 3.380

see also the other two Furies, Megaira and Tisiphone

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