Aeschylus
In this paper I will be placing my emphasis on tearing apart the story of Oresteia, Greek Tragedy, articles written on the story, and then give me own interpretation.Aeschylus lived approximately from 525- 456 B.C. in the city of Eleusis. The Oresteia was written two years before his death. He wrote the tragedies: Eumenides, Prometheus Bound, The Oresteia, The Persians, Seven against Thebes, among others. In the interpretation given by David Cohen, he describes justice in the Oresteia. In the first few paragraphs, Cohen describes the main point of the book, which is the justice that Zeus enforces. Aeschylus believes strongly that Zeus’s laws are not intentionally supposed to harm the innocent. Most of the laws established in many countries are not setup to incriminate the innocent but to bring justice to the innocent by giving the guilty an adequate punishment. Cohen then explains that in the book Agamemnon , “Zeus is just and does not punish the innocent, and if all that happens in the play is part of the working out of his divine plan. How does one explain the sacrifice of many people of Troy.” (Cohen 46) Even in the Bible, God , (which is comparable to Zeus in mythology) , sacrifi
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Approximate Word count = 879
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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