Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Here Spencer Klavan reflects on Aeschylus' Oresteia and "the problem of how to put the Furies to rest once you’ve roused them.” He recounts how Aeschylus stages a crisis that cannot be solved by force alone: it needs the founding of a new kind of justice, one capable of appeasing what revenge has set in motion.
Here Spencer Klavan reflects on Aeschylus' Oresteia and "the problem of how to put the Furies to rest once you’ve roused them.” He recounts how Aeschylus stages a crisis that cannot be solved by force alone: it needs the founding of a new kind of justice, one capable of appeasing what revenge has set in motion.
