Play by Aeschylus; part 3 of the Oresteia

Athena and Apollo persuade the Eumenides (Erinyes, Furies) to stop persecuting Orestes after he has been acquitted of matricide. Etching by T. Piroli, 1795, after J. Flaxman.

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Athena and Apollo persuade the Eumenides (Erinyes, Furies) to stop persecuting Orestes after he has been acquitted of matricide. Etching by T. Piroli, 1795, after J. Flaxman.