 They are traditionally depicted as ancient chthonic deities preoccupied with avenging patricide and matricide by hunting down and killing violent criminals.In Aeschylus' "The Oresteia", the title character is pursued by the Furies in revenge for the murder of his mother Clytemnestra.The saga tells the story of the decimation of the line of Atreus; Clytemnestra had hacked to death her husband Agamemnon, and later slew Cassandra, who had foreseen the murders and declared