Aeschylus: Eumenides

Anthony J. Podlecki is a retired Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia. He has written many books, with a major focus on the interaction between the literature and the history of ancient Greece of the archaic and classical periods. These include Perikles and his Circle (Routledge), The Political Background to Aeschylean Tragedy (Bristol Classical Press), and an edition of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound in this series.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSINTRODUCTIONI.The Myth before Aeschylus; cult of the Semnai; early Conceptions of the ErinyesII.Staging a.The Design of the Early Theatreb.The Staging of EumenidesIII.Philosophy and PoliticsIV.Influencea.Ancient Literatureb.Ancient Artc.The Myth in Later Literature and MusicV.The Eumenides and its Place in the Work of Aeschylus; Dike (Justice) in The Oresteia; the Moral of the TrilogyVI.The Text of Eumenides and its TransmissionNOTESTEXT AND TRANSLATIONCOMMENTARYApparatus CriticusAppendicesI.Athenian Judicial Procedure as Reflected in the Trial SceneII.Athena’s Vote at vv. 735 and 752–3 and the so-called “Vote of Athena”III.The Choral MetresGENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEXIllustrations:Side panel of a Roman sarcophagusRoman marble sarcophagusApulian calyx-krater