D.C. Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer were two of the judges who participated in a mock trial based on The Oresteia… read more Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader ...

Not all Athenian trilogies were fashioned from related stories, but the Oresteia was ... to judge the trial of Orestes for matricide. Athena insists that the case be judged by a jury: democratic ...

The article in the title is telling: This is not the Oresteia, the Aeschylus trilogy ... to kill Mom); and Euripedes' Orestes follows the public trial against the half-mad Orestes and his own ...

whether it's the enacting of Cassandra's nightmarish visions à la The Shining or the use of The People's Court theme as Athena presides over Orestes' trial. The Oresteia does provide a ...

If “The Oresteia” — lyrically compressed and ... You may hear, in the trial of Electra and Orestes by a jury of ordinary Athenians, an argument against capital punishment that sounds as ...