Classical Mythology

Eumenides Study Questions:

• How can this play be seen as a medititation on the nature of justice? How do each of the characters Agamemnon Clytemnestra and Orestes see themselves as agents of justice? How does this set of plays evaluate their claims?
  
  
• What is the nature of the debate between Apollo and the Furies? What is at stake for each of them? Which of their arguments do you find most convincing?
  
  
• What do you think about Athena's role in this conflict? How is it significant?