Throughout the last few pages, you find Athena trying to convince the Furies to be at peace, not to unleash there anger, and to accept the offer she has made them. They baulk (quite redundantly, may I say) time and again, before Athena finally convinces them to accept her offer and calm their rage. (pg. 270, lines 888-899) As she is the goddess of Persuasion, I find it suspicious that she makes such pains to persuade the Furies. Is Athena right to persuade the Furies of their opinion? I know this is truly, at the root, a question of the goddesses morality, which has proven to be inconsistent and selfish. I think the whole situation of the story is morally unstable and unjustifiable.
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Athena did what she had to do to get what she wanted and she does it elequently and with power thats why the Furies finally turn to her side. One must not forget the authority she posseses and the cunning side that we see but the other characters do not.
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