Monarch Notes, January 1st, 1963
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 ...
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