According to Aeschylus in the prologue of the Eumenides, it had origins in prehistoric times and the worship of Gaia.

The institution of trial by jury was ritually depicted by Aeschylus in the Eumenides, the third and final play of his Oresteia trilogy.

His listeners may also have understood the introduction of a new god by allusions to Aeschylus ' The Eumenides ; the irony would have been that just as the Eumenides were not new gods at all but the Furies in a new form, so was the Christian God not a new god but rather the god the Greeks already worshipped as the Unknown God.

Liddell Scott provides other sources for the shortened form of this verb, including Acusilaus ( 5th century BC ), Joannes Laurentius Lydus ( 4th century AD ) and the Scholiast on Aeschylus, Eumenides, who cites Pindar relating how the earth tried to tartaro " cast down " Apollo after he overcame the Python.

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

* The Athenian playwright Aeschylus completes his trilogy The Oresteia ( which comprise Agamemnon, Choephoroi ( The Libation Bearers ) and The Eumenides ).

Harpies as ugly winged bird-women, e. g. in Aeschylus ' The Eumenides ( line 50 ) are a late development, due to a confusion with the Sirens.

* The Eumenides, the third part of Aeschylus ' Greek tragedy, the Oresteia

Tired of the bloodshed, the gods exonerated Orestes and declared this the end of the curse on the house of Atreus, as described in Aeschylus ' play The Eumenides.

In Aeschylus ' Eumenides Pheres is mentioned by the Chorus of Erinyes of Clytemnestra.

* 1986 – 88: Oresteia: Agamemnon, Choephorae, Eumenides ( Aeschylus )

More than half of Euripides's extant tragedies employ a deus ex machina in their resolution and some critics go so far as to claim that Euripides invented the deus ex machina, although Aeschylus employed a similar device in his Eumenides.

* Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

According to a speech that Aeschylus, in Eumenides, puts in the mouth of the Delphic priestess herself, she received control of the Oracle at Delphi from Themis: " Phoebe in this succession seems to be his private invention ," D. S.

Unique masks were also created for specific characters and events in a play, such as The Furies in Aeschylus ’ Eumenides and Pentheus and Cadmus in Euripides ’ The Bacchae.

* Aeschylus ' Supplices ( 1821 ), Eumenides ( 1822 ) and Prometheus ( 1831 )

* Eumenides of Aeschylus ( 1926 )

He is told by Apollo to go to Athens to be brought to trial ( as portrayed in Eumenides by Aeschylus ).

This book compares Aeschylus ’ s Eumenides with themes in T. S. Eliot ’ s The Family Reunion, the “ modern play ” which Bodkin had reviewed two years earlier, in May 1939.

Given the title of the play, and taking a cue from the aetiology for the Athenian Areopagus provided by Aeschylus ' Eumenides, it has been suggested that the drama concludes with Zeus ' foundation of the yearly torch race that took place in Athens to honor Prometheus.

Among famous names involved in those early days were Rupert Brooke as the Herald in Aeschylus ' Eumenides ( 1906 ), Sir Hubert Parry as the composer of incidental music to Aristophanes ' The Birds ( 1883 ) – the Bridal March is still used in weddings – and Ralph Vaughan Williams as composer of incidental music to The Wasps, also by Aristophanes ( 1909 ).

In the chronology of events following Orestes, this play takes place after the events contained in plays such as Electra by Euripides or The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus, and before events contained in plays like The Eumenides by Aeschylus and Andromache by Euripides.

This famous trilogy ( Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides ) won the competition of 458 BCE held in the Theater of Dionysus Eleuthereus.

Achaeus of Eretria (; born 484 BC in Euboea ) was a Greek playwright author of tragedies and satyr plays, variously said to have written 24, 30, or 44 plays, of which 19 titles are known: Adrastus, Aethon, Alcmeon, Alphesiboea, Athla, Azanes, Cycnus, Hephaestus, Iris, Linus, Eumenides, Moirai ( Fates ), Momus, Œdipus, Omphale, Philoctetes, Phrixus, Pirithous, and Theseus.

Even at that, her powers had come to her via the Fury Tisiphone, and the Furies, under the euphemism, " the Kindly Ones " ( a translation of " Eumenides ", a name they earned during the events of Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy ), are major characters in the series.

Aristotle's definition can include a change of fortune from bad to good as in the Eumenides, but he says that the change from good to bad as in Oedipus Rex is preferable because this effects pity and fear within the spectators.

In Aeschylus's Eumenides, Orestes goes mad after the deed and is pursued by the Erinyes, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety.

Megaera ( Ancient Greek: Μέγαιρα, English translation: " the jealous one ") is one of the Erinyes, Eumenides or " Furies " in Greek mythology.

The Kindly Ones ( a translation of the Greek Eumenides, " kind-hearted ") is a euphemistic reference to the Furies in Greek mythology.

A shrine of the Eumenides is considered in the same light ( line 1312 ).

" ( His public image seems to be subject to the same kind of outrageous rumor, heresay and Boffo way of thinking that is not unlike the late Ramtops witch ; Eumenides Treason.

The plot of the third play, The Eumenides is also excluded because in that play, the Council of Elders absolves Orestes of his sins, but since Sartre depicts Orestes as remorseless, he cannot include that storyline in his play without having to change his storyline.

In Euripides ' Orestes they are for the first time " equated " with the Eumenides ( Εὐμενίδες, pl.

Examples of this might be the Eumenides as vengeance, or Clytemnestra as symbolizing ancestral curse.

Aeschylus, in 458 BC, proposed the male as the parent, with the female as a " nurse for the young life sown within her.

* 458 BC: Greek playwright Aeschylus completes the Oresteia, a trilogy that tells the story of a family blood feud.

* Orestes in Aeschylus ' Oresteia ( 458 BC ).

The earliest known reference to the idea that swans sing one beautiful song before dying first appears in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon from 458 BC.

The first is the Libation Bearers in the Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus ( 458 BC ).

The enduring popularity of Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy ( produced in 458 BC ) is evident in Euripides ' construction of the recognition scene between Orestes and Electra.

Another piece of evidence used to support an early date is the relationship between the character of Deianeira and that of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus ' Oresteia, first produced in 458.

The earliest known reference to walking a red carpet in literature is in the play Agamemnon by Aeschylus, written in 458 BC.