Though Hades supervised the trial and punishment of the wicked after death, he was not normally one of the judges in the underworld, nor did he personally torture the guilty, a task assigned to the Furies (Erinyes).
Because the Greeks feared to utter the dreaded name Erinyes, the goddesses were often addressed by euphemistic names, such as Eumenides ("Kindly") in Sicyon or Semnai ("August") in Athens.
I must be getting better at these acrostics: there were only a few Googles today, primarily the ERINYES, who were "The Furies, to ancient Greeks," and ANORTHITE, the "Calcium-rich form of feldspar".
But Aeschylus' Eumenides as much as the Erinyes were there to protect family, society and the world at large against anarchy, to punish crimes that disturbed social order and to hold in check the hubris that in making men forget that they were mortal, encouraged them to challenge order and the gods.
In fact, "Eumenides" was an antonym intended to flatter the wrathful Erinyes and thus avoid their ire.
Furies, Greek Erinyes, also called Eumenides, in Greco-Roman mythology, the chthonic goddesses of vengeance.
After leading the Epigoni (the sons of the Seven) in the destruction of Thebes, Alcmaeon carried out his father's injunctions by killing his mother, but as a punishment he was driven mad and pursued by the Erinyes (goddesses of vengeance) from place to place.
Thus, the Erinyes (the deities of vengeance) are born when Uranus is overthrown by Cronus, while their own hour for action comes when Cronus is about to be overthrown by Zeus.
For example, the ecstatic mania sent by Dionysus is different from the hallucinations sent by the Erinyes, the Furies who torture Orestes after his matricide.
Mayer's "Furies" are the raging Erinyes, who emerge from darkest hell with snakes in their hair, whips and torches in their hands, to spur retribution.
