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Orestia

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Orestia, Turkey: see Edirne Edirne , formerly Adrianople , city (1990 pop. 102,325), capital of Edirne prov., NW Turkey, in Thrace. It is the commercial center for a farm region where grains, fruits, and tobacco are grown and cattle and sheep are raised.
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There is also a modern day interpretation of Aeschylus's The Orestia in there: after Orestes killed his mother he was plagued by the three Furies, here represented as three hybrid biomorphic vultures.
In one of the oldest generative legal narratives, the Orestia, Athena assents to resolve the conflict between Orestes and the Furies and founds the first court in the classical world, thus causing the rendering of justice to become a human responsibility.
The Double Life of the Law In the ancient world, the hideously destructive furies, who are a kind of image of Thanatos or the Death Drive, are converted in Aeschylles' Orestia into the kindly Eumenides: tutelary deities are institutionalised, incorporated within the city, their unspeakably awful terror diverted and turned outwards to protect the city.
 
 
 
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