Orestia review

Now when the sudden blows come down,let no one sound the call that once brought help,‘Justice, hear me—Furies throned in power!’Oh I can hear the father nowOr the mother sob with painAt the pain’s onset…hopeless now,The house of Justice falls. That is the Furies raging at the end of Aeschylus’ The Oresteia, the trilogy tracing the fall of the house of Agamemnon and the rise of Athens. (Robert Fagles’ masterful translation.) In a recent post, I ruminated that one of the problems with … [Read more...] about Return of the Furies