... , the first play, Clytemnestra kills the King brutally, heartlessly, inspired by her angry, vengeful nature, her lust for power, and, quite probably, the hellish Furies. In The Libation Bearers, however, Orestes? actions, while they are still partially motivated by revenge, are also instructed by the god Apollo. After all, he does not actually go to kill his mother until after he ... shrill prophecies?/?foretold storms of suffering if I did not avenge my father's killers. (L.B. 269-273) Finally, in The Furies, a jury of the wisest citizens of Athens decides the fate of Orestes. This time...

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