When someone dies angry, there is unfinished business to be processed after death. Such an Erinys is a superhuman personification of the vengeful anger stored up in those who have died – and whose death requires vengeance. In uttering her curse, she beats the ground with downturned hand, and the thumping sound is eerily heard from down below by an Erinys ( Erīnus) or ‘Fury’ (IX 568-572). There the mother of Meleagros curses her son for having accidentally killed his maternal uncle, that is, her brother (IX 566-567). We already saw this word Erīnus in a most revealing context when we were reading Iliad IX 571, quoted in Hour 2 Text E. The name ‘Furies’ here is a translation of the original Greek Erīnues or Erinyes, the singular form of which is Erīnus or Erinys. But now, as we will see in this hour, tīmē is also demanded by the Furies. So far, we have seen situations where cult heroes as well as gods can receive tīmē. The key word for this hour is tīmē, plural tīmai, ‘honor honor paid to a superhuman force by way of cult’.
The living word II: Socrates in Plato’s Phaedoġ7§1. The living word I: Socrates in Plato’s Apology of Socrates The hero’s agony in the Bacchae of Euripides The hero as mirror of men’s and women’s experiences in the Hippolytus of Euripides Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and heroic pollution Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus and the power of the cult hero in death
Looking beyond the cult hero in the Libation Bearers and the Eumenides of Aeschylus Heroic aberration in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus The cult hero as an exponent of justice in Homeric poetry and beyond Blessed are the heroes: The cult hero in Homeric poetry and beyond The mind of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey The return of Odysseus in the Homeric Odyssey The psychology of the hero’s sign in the Homeric Iliad The sign of the hero in visual and verbal art When mortals become ‘equal’ to immortals: Death of a hero, death of a bridegroom
Achilles as lyric hero in the songs of Sappho and Pindar Achilles as epic hero and the idea of total recall in song The Homeric Iliad and the glory of the unseasonal hero
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