Aeschylus presents controversy about defining justice between different gods in the Eumenides. ... Aeschylus represents a world filled with magic and divinities, something far from today's reality, creating the argument that while both Aeschylus and Plato demonstrate reasonable interpretations of justice, justice as explored through censorship and lies is much more convincing and relevant than justice explored through piety and ancient tradition as seen in the Eumenides. ... He had killed his own mother in order to demand reprisal from her because she had killed his father, Agamemnon. ....

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• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Some of Seneca's stories that originated from the Greeks like Agamemnon and Thyestes which dealt with bloody family histories and revenge captivated the Elizabethans. ... For the dramatists of Renaissance Italy, France and England, classical tragedy meant only the ten Latin plays of Seneca and not Euripides, Aeschylus and Sophocles. ...

• Word Count: 2544
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Klassen provides an example of this thirst for vengeance when he quotes Agamemnon stating, "No; we are not going to leave a single one of them alive, down to the babies in their mothers" wombs- not even they must live. ... Between 524-406 B.C.E., three poets (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) arose and profoundly spoke against the wages of war and violence. ...

• Word Count: 3806
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School