In Aeschylus the Furies seem to be embodiments of vengeance and their position is justified and to some extent sympathetic. In Virgil they seem to be more simply malign. Do these represent evolving (or Greek v Roman) concepts of the Furies? Or is it just specific literary purposes of the writers?
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