Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl) with Orestes kneeling beside the omphalos and tripod at
Pottery: red-figured bell-krater (wine-bowl) with Orestes kneeling beside the omphalos and tripod at Delphi, as he seeks sanctuary from the avenging Furies. Athena and Apollo intervene on his behalf and he is purified of the killing of his mother. Attributed to Python (360-320 BCE), Paestum. Collection of the British Museum (X) Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license.Hear me and be gracious,O renowned Eumenides,O pure daughtersof the great Chthonic Zeusand of lovely Persephone,fair-tressed maiden.Over the lives of impious mortalsyou keep a careful eye,in charge of Necessity,you punish the unjust.Black-skinned queens,your awesome eyes flash forthflesh-eatingdarts of light.Everlasting, repugnant,frightful, sovereign,paralyzing the limbs with madness,hideous, nocturnal, fateful,snake-haired, terriblemaidens of the night,it is you I summonto bring me holiness of mind.- Orphic Hymn 70, To the Eumenides, Athanassakis, A. & Wolkow, B. The Orphic Hymns. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013.The Eumenideia begins tomorrow 27 Anthesterion/3 March after sunset, and runs through the following day. -- source link
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