| The Eumenides shows the Furies in pursuit of Orestes, who is protected by the younger god Apollo. |
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| Curious and willing, Oedipus asks how he can do this and appease the Eumenides, whose sacred grove he violated after first entering Colonus. |
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| Furies, Greek Erinyes, also called Eumenides, in Greco-Roman mythology, the chthonic goddesses of vengeance. |
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| The temple doors are blown open and the three Eumenides, the furious goddesses of vengeance make their entrance. |
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| They turned the robes inside out in one graceful gesture, revealing pink undercloaks as they changed into Eumenides. |
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| The matricidal vengeance taken by Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is mentioned in passing, and the work ends with Athena's establishment of mortal justice and her conversion of the Furies into the more benign Eumenides. |
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| Examples of this might be the Eumenides as vengeance, or Clytemnestra as symbolizing ancestral curse. |
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| Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia, comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, follows the story of Agamemnon after his return from the war. |
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