The Erinyes on the stage in the Atreides: Aeschylus, The Oresteia. J.Gira - Bok av Lia Hadzopoulou - Karavia - Häftad
The Erinyes come from the depths of religious thought, before the official religions. Before Aeschylus, the popular imagination confused them with other demons or dangerous and poisonous animals. Classical Greek literature (Homer, The Epic Cycle, Hesiod, Stesichore, Pindar) would refer to their functions rather than their form. When the Erinyes become anthropomorphic, in Aeschylus' Eumenides, where they appear on stage, they declare that they are ancient goddesses, (ancient even in the time of the..