Analyse the role of god or goddess in one or more plays. What does the deity provide humanity and why do people worship him or her? How might the existence of the deity help people make sense of the world and their own lives? What sort of people does the

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Aeschylus and the Role of a God or Goddess

Introduction

Aeschylus became one of the well known playwright and leading tragic poets of the ancient Greece along with Sophocles and Euripides . Around 458 B .C , he produced a three part play known as the Oresteia Trilogy starting from the first one entitled Agamemnon followed by The Libation Bearers also known as Cheophori and the third is the Eumenides . The play was believed to be based on the events during that time in Greece characterized

by civil wars in the society the have resulted atrocities and the evolution of the justice system from traditional eye for an eye ' system to a more structured system with courts and trials

Other well known plays written by Aeschylus include The Suppliant Maidens , The Persians , Seven against Thebes and Prometheus Bound . Like most of the plays the major themes or motifs that can be observed particularly in Oresteia are justice and revenge , evolution of personal retaliation into a civilized court system , gender rivalry , and infidelity and particularly is the roles of gods and goddesses to the lives of the people

The gods and goddesses of the ancient Greece played such a noteworthy role in the lives of the characters because they have the power to control and influence . It is worth to analyze how these deities or gods had been an important element of the story that without them the story would be lacking . Why these gods are so important to...