What is the significance of the court that Athena founds?
What is the significance of Apollo's argument that the father is the only parent? How is the audience meant to respond? How does the jury in the play respond?
Athena argues that she is for the father's side, except for marriage, because she was born from a father alone. Does her argument solve the problem of the play or contribute to it further? What is the significance of the fact that Athena is a female but a virgin, and moreover a warrior?
What finally prevails upon the Furies to relent? How is Athena's speech characterized in the play? How does Athena's speech compare or contrast to the speech of other female characters in the Oresteia?
What honors are the Furies given in the end? What is the significance of these honors?
Is it significant that the play is ended by a chorus of women?
Summarize Zeitlin's argument and give your response to it.