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The transition from the Erinyes to the Eumenides:[1] one more marker of a changing landscape of thought — an increased centralization, brought about by a subjugation of previous ways of being.
[1] Aeschylus, The Oresteia Trilogy, trans. E.D.A. Morshead (Mineola: Dover Publications, 1996), p. 140–51. The Erinyes (the Furies) are blood and earth female deities who have a responsibility to haunt Orestes for killing his mother Clytemnestra (as vengeance for, in turn, her murder of his father Agamemnon); however, the Erinyes are overruled by a council-court of Athenian gods. At this, the Erinyes are filled with rage until Athena offers them a place within the Athenian polis. Here, they change from the Erinyes to the Eumenides (the blessed ones), as well as from earth deities to secondary deities within the Greek city-state.