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Preface; References and abbreviations; Introduction;
1. The legend;
2. Erinyes, Eumenides and Semnai;
3. The Areopagus and homicide;
4. The life and work of Aeschylus;
5. Justice and the gods;
6. A play for its day;
7. Production;
8. The text; Sigla; Eumenides; Commentary; Appendix; Indexes.
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Randall Ray Ray
reviewed Aeschylus: Eumenides on November 05, 2019
Aeschylus: Eumenides
Eumenides deals with Orestes' trial for the murder of his mother Clytaemestra.
Hounded by the Furies for the murder of a blood relation, Orestes seeks assistance from Apollo who advises him and bades Hermes to guide him to Athens, to seek sanctuary from Pallas Athena. This is essentially a courtroom procedural drama, with Orestes and the Furies giving testimony and the citizens of Athens casting votes for guilty or not guilty.
The primary characters are the Furies (Erinyes) and that is interesting. The play brings up the transition from chthonic gods to the sky gods, the transition of matrilineal lines to patrilineal lines, and the particular translation I read (Smyth, 1926) is endowed with messianic qualities. I'm not sure if it is Smyth and his bias bleeding through so I want to find another version. I saw instances of biblical similarities in the preceding two plays of the trilogy, but Eumenides was even more so with the comparison of Athena and Jesus evident.
APOLLO: And I will show you proof of what I say: a father might exist without a mother. A witness is here at hand, the child of Olympian Zeus, who was not nursed in the darkness of a womb, and she is such a child as no goddess could give birth to.
This is the critical aspect of the argument for Orestes' innocence and heralds a change in the "old ways". Fascinating. Anyway, there's more, but a good third of the play is Pallas Athena negotiating with the Furies to bring them under her fold in Athens, ideological sublimation--to be blessings of the earth instead of curses.
This must be beautiful to watch staged.
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