# Modern productions and feminist criticism record the Eumenides’ court as a patriarchal settlement

Date: 1981

## The fact

Harrison’s 1981 Oresteia and adjacent feminist classical criticism made public that Athena’s vote and the taming of the Furies settle Clytemnestra’s claim by preferring the father.

## Context

A civic court myth can be a justice gain (other row) and a gendered silencing. The 1981 male company made the issue visible in performance, not only in journals.

[Aeschylus](/people/aeschylus) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, festival, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Faber — Tony Harrison, The Oresteia (https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571117072-the-oresteia/; Faber & Faber).

## Significance

Do not write that Aeschylus authored a 1981 essay. Do record the play’s settlement as later readers named it.

Do not write that Aeschylus authored a 1981 essay. Do record the play’s settlement as later readers named it.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [protection-of-minority-rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Aeschylus: https://factrail.ai/people/aeschylus

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2005/sep/21/theatre1
- https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571117072-the-oresteia/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-eumenides-gender-settlement