Excerpt from The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: With a Metrical Translation and Notes, Critical and Illustrative Guilt of matricide, he becomes a victim to the haunting torture of the Furies (erinyes or Eumenides). In the third - the Ezmzezzz'des - we have 'the Avenger's Trial.' Orestes flies to Delphi, there obtains the protection of Apollo, who procures for him a trial before the ancient court of Areopagus, under the presidency of Pallas. The Furies plead against him, Apollo speaks for the defence at the close Orestes is acquitted by the casting vote of the goddess, restored to his civil rights, and freed from the persecuting power of the Furies, whom Pallas con soles with the promise of a grove and sacred rites at Colonus near Athens. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.