Hypocrisy and injustice are a reoccurring theme in not only The Eumenides but most of the Greek literature we have read throughout the semester. Not only the humans or the divine creatures that are under the gods, but the gods themselves display both of these themes. Apollo is determined to save a murderer while the Furies are determined to kill the murderer for another murderer, and the ghost of Clytaemnestra is demanding justice for being murdered after murdering her own husband. These characters are soaking wet in hypocrisy and injustice which reflects the Greek culture and how the people were unjust and hypocrites. Since they were not perfect they could not imagine gods who were any better.
P.S. I commented in Caleb's!
Amen! I agree completely. That is one thing that I find amusing/ irritating about Greek mythology.
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