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Aeschylus’s plays “Agamemnon”, “The Libation Bearers”, and “Eumenides” were all based on one parent child conflict that gradually manifested into one the best-known curses in Greek mythology. Tantalus, one of Zeus’s many sons, started this havoc when he attempted to serve the Gods a dinner consisting of his son, Pelops. The reaction of the angered Gods resulted in the curse on the House of Atreus, which would prove effective as it plagued parents …

…brutal matricide or a much-deserved act of revenge worthy of forgiveness? So went the Trial of the Furies held before the goddess Athena herself. In the end Orestes was victorious as Athena concluded the role of a father is superior to that of a mother. She based this on the fact that a mother is not required to create a child, because she was born out of Zeus’s head without a mother at all.