What is justice? How is it related to vengeance? Can justice be reconciled with the demands of religion, the violence of human feeling, or the forces of fate? These questions have been asked by Athenians for decades after the battle of Marathon.(During the first Persian invasion of Greece, in 490 BC) And with that is the influence and inspiration for The Oresteian Trilogy Three ancient Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus. These three plays, detail the sordid affairs due to a curse on the House of Atreus. The trilogy consists of