The irony of the paternal rather than the maternal Erinyes is heightened by the commonness of the Erinye as explained by Apollo to those of the Eumenides. The paternal Erinyes share the role of causing sickness and infertility, together with the maternal Erinyes that belongs to the Eumenides (Labeck 56). Parker (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. ... The Erinyes of the Eumenides differ from all the other Erinyes since they are not in any case similar to the other gods. ....

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