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This 5 page paper provides an overview of Greek society. The complexities of society in ancient Greece defined specific issues during the classical period, including issues related to the political body, the creation of law and the development of morality through moral example, all of which shaped the view of the citizenry and of ancient thinkers. Aeschylus, in the Oresteia, considered the central challenges to the polis and the issues of justice and order as they were defined by specific events in the lives of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes, among others. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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of morality through moral example, all of which shaped the view of the citizenry and of ancient thinkers. Aeschylus, in the Oresteia, considered the central challenges to the polis
and the issues of justice and order as they were defined by specific events in the lives of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, and Orestes, among others. Eumenedes, one of the trilogy
plays of the Oresteia, provides a means of assessing how thinkers like Aeschylus perceived the basic order of the polis, the importance of order and justice and the implications for
a comparative view of Athens with other cities, including Sparta and the cities of Mesopotamia. Eumenedes is the story of the life of Orestes, the son of
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the correlation between human actions, interactions and subsequent events that define both order and disorder and justice and injustice. It can be argued that within
the scope of Greek scholarship, authors like Aeschylus recognized that their audiences, the audiences of Greek tragedies, were already familiar with the plots of the plays presented, many of which
were based in common mythology. These plays were designed to promote a cultural message and create a view of the polis that had distinct elements and application for that
era. The focus, then, of Eumenides was to bring about a sense of the life of Orestes, while also giving a view of the correlation between mans actions and
the nature of justice within the polis. Perhaps one of the most significant determinants of disorder and injustice within the polis is the concept of revenge and the
seeking of an "eye for an eye." Within the story in Eumenides, Aeschylus reports of the lives of the sons of Pelops, Atreus and Thyestes, who feud constantly
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