Editing Oresteia (section)

===Justice through retaliation===
Retaliation is seen in the ''Oresteia'' to cascade. In ''Agamemnon'', it is mentioned that [[Agamemnon]] had to sacrifice his innocent daughter [[Iphigenia]] to shift the wind for his voyage to Troy.<ref name="auto3">{{Cite journal|last1=Scott|first1=William|title=Wind Imagery in the Oresteia|journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association|year=1966|volume=97|pages=459–471|jstor=2936026|publisher=The Johns Hopkins University Press|doi=10.2307/2936026}}</ref> This caused [[Clytemnestra]] to plot revenge on [[Agamemnon]]. She found a new lover [[Aegisthus]] and when [[Agamemnon]] returned to [[Ancient Argos|Argos]] from the [[Trojan War]], Clytemnestra killed him by stabbing him in the bathtub and went on to inherit his throne.<ref name="J1960439"/> The death of Agamemnon thus sparks anger in [[Orestes]] and [[Electra]]; they plot matricide (the death of their mother Clytemnestra) in the next play, ''Libation Bearers''. Through much pressure from Electra and his cousin [[Pylades]], Orestes kills Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus.<ref name="auto3"/> Consequently, [[Orestes]] is hunted down by the Furies in the third play ''The Eumenides''. Even after he escapes, Clytemnestra's spirit comes back to rally them again so that they can kill Orestes and obtain vengeance for her.<ref name="auto3"/> However, this cycle of retaliation comes to a stop near the end of ''The Eumenides'' when [[Athena]] decides to introduce a new legal system for dealing out justice.<ref name="J1960439"/>