"Oresteia" by Aeschylus

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"In the three plays of the Oresteia by Aeschylus, legal issues are discussed and used as important motivations for much of the action. Different legal metaphors are utilized in the first two plays, culminating in the courtroom references and structure of the third play, The Eumenides. The first two plays in the trilogy present an image of private vengeance as something that goes against the grain of the law, while the third play emphasizes the need to replace this private vengeance with the rule of law, embodied here in the courtroom. Throughout, the actions of the leaders of Athens determine the fate of the society of that city, whether the people prosper or not, because the gods--her represented by the Eumenides, will punish the entire region for the transgressions of the House of Atreus.


In the first two plays, Agamemnon and The Libation Bearers, the..."

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