Note DV — Chapter XXIII · SEXUAL MORALITY
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The transition from the matriarchate to the patriarchate has been dramatized in the Orestea of Aeschylus.
Apollo proclaims:
“Not is the mother the child’s progenitor. “She shelters and carries only the awakened life. “The father begets, she only preserves him the pledge.”
The Erinnyes thereupon lament:
“Thus thou sinkest, the gods’ ancient epoch.”