![]() The Furies, angered by the decision, become enraged and threaten to unleash a plague upon Athens. ![]() Athena acts as the judge, and 12 random Athenian male citizens make up the jury.Īthena and the jury eventually agree that Orestes is innocent. Orestes is guilty of killing his mother by fulfilling his duty to avenge his father’s death. Orestes killed his mother, Clytemnestra, who killed his father, Agamemnon. And, if we look closely, the Oresteia can also illuminate a very important leadership lesson. The Oresteia frames the demise of a do-it-yourself revenge model to the emergence of a legal system composed of jurors, judges, and lawyers. ![]() He is tried by a jury and gets the chance to defend himself instead of falling victim to the old system of violent, tit-for-tat, revenge. In Eumenides, the final installment of Aeschylus‘ trilogy Oresteia, Orestes is tried for matricide on Areopagus, a flat rocky hill by Athens. ![]()
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