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Aeschylus Dichotomy

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ithin his lifetime Aeschylus bore witness to a series of constitutional changes that delivered Athens from its tyranny under Pisistratus and his sons to the establishment of a complete democracy. With this political transformation arrived dramatic social and cultural upheavals. The historical context ORESTEIA…. Athens was undergoing rapid and dramatic transformation from Aeschylus characterizes the social and political convulsions of his time through the dichotomy of “old” and “new” gods. Before the time of Aeschulys the righteous punishment of crime was believed to be under the jurisdiction of the terrifying powers of the gods. the Erinyes specifically avenged crimes of children against parents, matricide, patricide, and a failure to keep

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