# The Eumenides — Character guide

> Key figures in The Eumenides by Aeschylus.

- [Orestes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/orestes.md): Son of Agamemnon, pursued by the Furies for matricide, seeking purification.
- [Athena](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/athena.md): Goddess of wisdom who establishes a court to judge Orestes.
- [Apollo](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/apollo.md): God who commands Orestes to avenge his father and protects him.
- [The Furies](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/the_furies.md): Ancient goddesses of vengeance who pursue Orestes for matricide.
- [Clytemnestra](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/clytemnestra.md): Murdered wife of Agamemnon whose ghost rouses the Furies against Orestes.
- [Zeus](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/zeus.md): Supreme god, invoked as authority by Apollo and others.
- [Agamemnon](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/agamemnon.md): Murdered king of Argos, father of Orestes, whose death drives the plot.
- [The Eumenides](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/the_eumenides.md): The transformed Furies, honored as kindly ones after the trial.
- [Hermes](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/hermes.md): Messenger god, briefly mentioned or appearing in the narrative.
- [Ares](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/ares.md): God of war, invoked in oaths or background references.
- [Themis](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/themis.md): Titaness of divine law and order, referenced in the context of justice.
- [Mother Earth](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/mother_earth.md): Primordial goddess, invoked as a source of oracles and life.
- [Moira](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/moira.md): Personification of fate, mentioned in choral passages.
- [Bromios](https://www.betterreads.online/discover/the_eumenides_se/characters/bromios.md): Epithet of Dionysus, referenced in the context of ecstatic worship.

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