... completely. The Erinyes will come from Agamemnon if Orestes fails to avenge him. The effects of these Erinyes are surely similar to the effects of Eumenides, as they serve as an opposite purpose towards the justification of the killing of one's own mother. The irony of the paternal rather than the ... (105) asserts that the rhetoric of gender, which is the center of focus on the first two plays, is confirmed in the Eumenides through the judgment of the trial. Apollo tends to support the male single parent as a biological reality and the essentiality of the bonds ... existing in marriag...

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