Meet the Cast
Orestes
File Orestes alongside Oh Dae-Su from Oldboy, The Bride from Kill Bill, Django from Django Unchained and Matilda from Leon: The Professional. This dude has one thing on his mind: revenge. At least,...
Apollo
There's a reason why most religions describe their gods as enigmatic, incomprehensible, ineffable, mysterious, baffling, or any number of synonyms you could fish out of a thesaurus. The Apollo of A...
Athena
To understand Athena's role in The Eumenides you just need to understand a couple of basic things. First of all, Athena was the goddess of wisdom and of war. She was especially interested in protec...
Chorus of Furies
If you're looking for a character (or group of characters) that undergo a change during The Eumenides—or even, hey, the whole of Western literature—look no further than the Furies.At the beginn...
Ghost of Clytemnestra
For more info on Clytemnestra before she got ghostified (that is, er, killed by her son Orestes), check out the other two plays of the Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon and Libation Bearers). In The Eume...
Prophetess of Apollo
The Prophetess of Apollo is the lady who works at the temple of Apollo in Delphi. Specifically, she is the person that mortals talk to if they have any questions to ask the god. After a mortal asks...