id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
grbs-4741	Roisman, Hanna M.	Orestes’ Promise	1987	10	.pdf	application/pdf	4765	166	58	First, the repeated gratitude of Orestes to Athena has been judged dramatically inappropriate by Quincey, who assumes that the natural climax of the play should be Orestes' acquittal rather than his gesture of thanks.ls Second, in his speech to Athena Orestes mentions neither the court, which is so elevated and acclaimed by the goddess, nor the justice of the verdict, as might be expected from a suppliant: his speech, as Gagarin notes, is political. In her choice ofa motive for acquittal Athena appears merely to seize upon an excuse just offered to her by her brother (658-61), who claimed that since a mother is not the real begetter of the child, Orestes did not shed kindred blood but killed a stranger, a woman who had merely nourished the seed planted by his father.	cache/grbs-4741.pdf	txt/grbs-4741.txt