Binding Song

Genre/Style: Revenge Country

Touchstones: The Chicks, “Goodbye Earl, ”Not Ready to Make Nice”; Carrie Underwood, “Before He Cheats”

Themes:

Work: The Furies’ magical binding song in Aeschylus’ Eumenides 307-396 (458 BCE)

Read in Ancient Greek at the Perseus Project (ed. Smyth 1926)
Read Smyth's 1926 English translation at the Perseus Project