Eumenides 267–75: μέγας Ἅιδης εὓθυνος

Geoffrey W. Bakewell

doi:10.1093/cq/47.1.298

Eumenides 267–75: μέγας Ἅιδης εὓθυνος

Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009

Geoffrey W. Bakewell

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Having withered you while you live I will lead you down so that you may give recompense for the miseries of your slaughtered mother. And if anyone else of mortals has done wrong, committing impiety against god or any stranger or his own parents, you will see him getting his just deserts. For Hades is a great euthunos of mortals below the ground, he oversees all things with his tablet-writing mind.

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Information: The Classical Quarterly , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , May 1997 , pp. 298 - 299

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/cq/47.1.298 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Classical Association 1997

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¹ S.V. I.

² The locus classicus for the role of at Athens is Ath. Pol. 48.4. See, however, Pierart, M., ‘Les EYYNOI atheniens’, L′Antiquite Classique 40 (1971), 526–573, who has demonstrated that accountability proceedings underwent considerable change between the early fifth century and the late fourth century.Google Scholar

³ Sommerstein, A., Aeschylus Eumenides (Cambridge, 1989), p. 130Google Scholar. Podlecki, A., Eumenides (Warminster, 1989), p. 152 also sees in the passage a reference to the process.Google Scholar

⁴ Sommerstein, p. 129. Citing Dem. 23.80, he notes that Orestes would be particularly susceptible to as someone who had entered a sacred place after incurring the pollution resulting from homicide

⁵ Rhodes, P. J., A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford, 1981), p. 562: ‘since retired officials were allowed thirty days within which to present their ... it is more probable that a further thirty days were allowed for complaints to the ’.Google Scholar