Alecto’s Connections

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Member of

• Erinyes

  The Erinyes are three in number: Alecto the unceasing, Tisiphone the avenger of murder, and Megaera the jealous, each embodying a distinct face of divine retribution against mortal transgressors.

Associated with

• Amata(Roman)

  Alecto drove Queen Amata to madness in Aeneid Book 7 by casting a serpent into her breast. The poisoned queen raged through the city and led Latin women into Bacchic frenzy to prevent Lavinia's marriage to Aeneas.

• Juno(Roman)

  Juno summoned Alecto from the Underworld in Aeneid Book 7 to shatter the peace of Latium and ignite war between Trojans and Italians, using the Fury as her agent of chaos against fate's decree.

• Latinus(Roman)

  After poisoning Amata and inflaming Turnus, Alecto engineered the final spark of war by driving Ascanius's hunting dogs to flush Silvia's sacred deer into his path, provoking the first bloodshed between Trojans and Latins that shattered the peace Latinus had decreed.

• Pluto(Roman)

  Alecto is so monstrous that even Pluto, lord of every horror in the underworld, loathes her. When Juno summons her from the pit, Virgil notes that Pluto himself and Alecto's own Fury sisters shudder at the sight of her.

• Turnus(Roman)

  Juno summoned Alecto from the Underworld to inflame Turnus with battle-fury. The Fury hurled a smoking torch into Turnus's breast, transforming his anger into unquenchable rage for war against the Trojans.