the Furies

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Charles added: “Perhaps it’s a mercy that Mailer died just a few months after Twitter captured the public’s attention. Were the Great American Novelist alive today, the Furies would peck his bones bare.”

From New York Times • Feb. 2, 2023

In Greek mythology the Furies are deities charged with enacting vengeance upon men.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2021

Pointedly, Philippe begins the film with a shot of the Temple of Apollo ruins at Delphi and a dramatization of the Furies, played by a trio of actresses with a few creepy Giger-esque visual enhancements.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 3, 2019

“Michael only asked two things,” McLaughlin says of tackling the Greek trilogy, which tells the bloody saga of the House of Atreus and includes the Furies, goddesses of vengeance.

From Washington Post • Feb. 13, 2018

I lunged at him, but the Furies were fast.

From "The Last Olympian" by Rick Riordan