Anthony J. Podlecki is a retired Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia. He has written many books, with a major focus on the interaction between the literature and the history of ancient Greece of the archaic and classical periods. These include Perikles and his Circle (Routledge), The Political Background to Aeschylean Tragedy (Bristol Classical Press), and an edition of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound in this series.

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION I. The Myth before Aeschylus; cult of the Semnai; early Conceptions of the Erinyes II. Staging a. The Design of the Early Theatre b. The Staging of Eumenides III. Philosophy and Politics IV. Influence a. Ancient Literature b. Ancient Art c. The Myth in Later Literature and Music V. The Eumenides and its Place in the Work of Aeschylus; Dike (Justice) in The Oresteia; the Moral of the Trilogy VI. The Text of Eumenides and its Transmission NOTES TEXT AND TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Apparatus Criticus Appendices I. Athenian Judicial Procedure as Reflected in the Trial Scene II. Athena’s Vote at vv. 735 and 752–3 and the so-called “Vote of Athena” III. The Choral Metres GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX Illustrations:Side panel of a Roman sarcophagusRoman marble sarcophagusApulian calyx-krater