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Article: Plays of Aeschylus: The Eumenides (458 B.C.)
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Aeschylus
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Eumenides (458 B.C.)
Background:
The Eumenides, variously translated as The Kindly Ones or The Solemn
Ones, is the third play of the Oresteia. It is one of the very few Greek
plays in which the Chorus leaves the stage completely and the scene changes
entirely. The play begins a few days after the events in The Libation
Bearers. Although there was a tradition that Orestes had been tried by the
Areopagus, most of the action of this drama seems to have been invented by
Aeschylus. In fact, there was another tradition that the first trial conducted
by the Areopagus was Poseidon's prosecution of Ares for the slaying of
Poseidon's son (hence the name Areopagus, ...