The male powers, for their part, combine with the younger generation to promote a new source of justice through the use of logic rather than blood. Athena is always the great mediator in Greek myth and drama, and more eager than any other gods to take the part of logic. Theirs was a world in which women held t power through blood and status through children, in which justice was nothing more than exacting the proper vengeance. The trial provides an ultimate confrontation between two opposing parties, and neither emerges as the clear victor, as proven by the split vote of the jurors. This period of transition is also visible in the progression of choruses from Agamemnon to The Eumenides .
Ancient advisors longing for youth again form the chorus in the first play.
They know their only power to be persuasion, and though their speaking often of Fate and curses shows their age and place in an older generation, they seem relatively benign in their influence of the situation at hand. Their wish for the coming generation seems to be a hope for the resurgence of an older order, rather than the logical system put forward by Apollo in his defense of Orestes. Lastly come the Furies, who are as old as the earth and have their power directly from the Fates themselves. Each layer of character is more ancient than the last, until the Furies are left to represent the source of all female power represented in the play, in its most primordial form. This pure essence seems to be the source of fear and misogyny that pervades the rest of the trilogy.