Monday, January 11, 2021

To the night of terror...

Orestes Pursued by the Furies by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1862)

"Orestes has forfeited his own blood, and the Erinyes wish to suck it from his living limbs and then draw him down to the night of terror like an exhausted shadow."

Walter F. Otto, The Homeric Gods


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