The Eumenides Resources

Your one-stop shop for information about all things Greek and mythological. This is a good place to turn if you're stuck on some obscure mythological reference.

Online texts of Aeschylus's seven surviving plays. Thanks, MIT!

This Greek film (also known by its original title, O Thiasos, uses Aeschylus's Oresteia to retell the history of modern Greece.

A 70's TV adaptation of Aeschylus's trilogy. So very 70's.

This is a bust of Aeschylus. Chances are it was not done from life, but it can give you some idea of what ancient people after Aeschylus imagined that he looked like.

This papyrus fragment is from a "satyr play" by Aeschylus, entitled the Dictyulci, or "Net-pullers." A satyr play is a comic play, which a chorus made up of satyrs—weird little half man half goat dudes. Traditionally a tragedian would write one tragic trilogy and a satyr play to accompany it.

Here's a 1983 British Production of The Eumenides with a masked, all-male cast.

This more or less sums it up. (Okay, less.)

This track by the American goth duo is inspired by the Furies from Aeschylus's The Eumenides.

Chill out to the sounds of Esben and the Witch's "Eumenides."

The American 19th-20th century painter John Singer Sargent painted this picture of Orestes being pursued by the Furies.

This painting by the turn of the 20th century Viennese artist Gustav Klimt shows the presiding goddess of The Eumenides in all her glory.

In this image, by the so-called "Eumenides Painter" (a dude who painted scenes from Aeschylus's play, between 390 and 380 BC), we see Clytemnestra attempting to awaken the so-called "Erinyes" or "Furies." They don't look too scary to us.

Here is another image from the so-called "Eumenides Painter." It shows what happens right before our play begins: when Orestes is cleansed of his sin at the shrine of Apollo. What is the cleaning agent? Pig's blood, of course!