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The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus' Greek tragedy, the Oresteia Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Eumenides .
Aeschylus' play Eumenides, the third part of his surviving Oresteia trilogy, enshrines the trial and acquittal of Orestes within the foundation of Athens itself, as a moment when legal deliberation surpassed blood vengeance as a means of resolution. As such, the fact that Euripides' version of the myth portrays Orestes being found guilty and ...
The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).
Modern adaptations of works by Aeschylus (10 P) A. Works based on Agamemnon (Aeschylus play) (1 C, 12 P) E. Works based on The Eumenides (11 P) L.
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Whoopi Goldberg is donning her habit once again as nun Sister Mary Clarence in the highly anticipated third Sister Act film. Goldberg starred in the original 1992 Sister Act movie as lounge singer ...
Aeschylus' work has a strong moral and religious emphasis. [48] The Oresteia trilogy concentrated on humans' position in the cosmos relative to the gods and divine law and divine punishment. [49] Aeschylus' popularity is evident in the praise that the comic playwright Aristophanes gives him in The Frogs, produced some 50 years after Aeschylus ...
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