cent after being helped through Athene’s divine intervention. Athene addresses the chorus toward the end of the trilogy and warns how fury can be a problem for not only gods but also humans. Athene says that “for humankind their work is accomplished, absolute, clear: for some, singing, for some, life dimmed in tears, theirs the disposition” (38). However, even though fury or synonyms such as wrath or vengeance can be a problem for the gods, it is the disposition of mankind. Without some sort of divine intervention from the gods there would be no conclusion to this trilogy, just another rage of vengeance. Athene herself says “my ambition for good wins out in the whole issue” (39) and it is through this ambition that everything is resolved. It is only through divine intervention that the problem of vengeance is resolved. This curse of vengeance is heightened in each play and the resolution is given through the god’s assistance. Though it is the pre-disposition of man or woman to submit to the violent tendency of vengeance, it is only through the divine that they can overcome this tendency. The Oresteia contains many themes; perhaps one of the most important is man’s reliance on the divine. Thus, the bloody feuds of vengeance are ended through Athene’s intercession and even the intervention of Apollo. Without the mediation of these two gods there would have been no conclusion. Apollo implies that man cannot escape his own nature. On the other hand, Athene says the same but it is only through her power, her ambition that man finds hope. Therefore mankind finds peace through the divine and the all-seeing Zeus “met with Destiny to confirm it” (41). ...
