Aeschylus Eumenides (The Furies)

Warning: The VHS tape was in extremely poor condition. There is nothing I can do about a 29 year old video tape. You’re lucky to get this, as bad as it looks. Eumenides is the last play of the Oresteia - the oldest surviving classical tragedy. Having avenged his father’s murder by killing his mother, Orestes - now pursued by the Furies because he has committed matricide - takes refuge at the shrine of Apollo, who promises protection and sends him to seek justice from Athena. The ghost of Clytemnestra rouse
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