She leaves as the temple doors open, and the gods Apollo and Hermes stand beside Orestes.

… the master of the house must take his own measures: Apollo Loxias, who is strong and heals by divination, reads portentous signs and so purifies the houses others hold as well. In front of her are the Furies, asleep with ooze dripping from their eyes. She has no strength and can barely stand. Terrible things to tell and see have driven her from the temple. Upon exiting the temple and crawling on all fours, she sees Orestes “with god's defilement on him postured in the suppliant's seat with blood dripping from his hands and from a new-drawn sword” (125). May all grant me that this of all my entrances shall be the best by far. I call upon the springs of Pleistus, on the power of Poseidon and on final loftiest Zeus, then go to sit in prophecy on the throne. Before entering the temple of Apollo, the Pythian priestess addresses the audience: The first is in front of the sanctuary of Apollo while the second is at the Acropolis before the temple of Athena. The cast of characters for The Eumenides includes: Eventually, he and Apollo arrive in Athens where the goddess Athena holds a trial. In The Eumenides, Orestes, on the verge of madness, prays to Apollo for relief from his agony. In Greek, they are later referred to as the Eumenides, daughters of the night and spirits of vengeance. However, his mother's last breath brings a curse upon Orestes: he is hounded by the Furies. In Libation Bearers, the exiled Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, returns home with his companion Plyades to seek revenge for this father's death by killing his mother and lover. In the queen's mind, the murder of her husband was simply an act of revenge for the earlier death of her daughter.

Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, hoping to rule Argos together, have conspired against him to kill him upon his return. In first play Agamemnon, the victorious king of Argos has returned home after the Trojan War, bringing with him a concubine, Cassandra. There was also a satyr play, the lost Proteus. The Eumenides was the third play of a trilogy, The Oresteia, with the remaining two tragedies being Agamemnon and Libation Bearers. The Eumenides is a play written by Aeschylus (c 525 – 455 BCE), the “Father of Greek Tragedy,” the most popular and influential of all tragedians of his era.

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