The Eumenides
How does Orestes justify killing his mother in The Eumenides?
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lthough the Furies pursue him and demand his own death for the murder of Clytaemnestra, Orestes still asks Apollo for forgiveness. He did commit the crime of matricide, but he justifies it because it was to avenge Agamemnon's death.
The Eumenides