The outcome of this trial characterized the city of Athens to be unreasonable. Orestes, who murdered his own mother was proven not guilty. The votes were equal for both sides, resulting in Athena having the vote that would be the final verdict. In Apollo’s defense for reasoning as to why Orestes killing his mother was acceptable was “The mother of what is called her child is not the parent, but the nurse of the newly-sown embryo. The one who mounts is the parent, whereas she, as a stranger for a stranger, preserves the young plant, if the god does not harm it. And I will show you proof of what I say: a father might exist without a mother. A witness is here at hand, the child of Olympian Zeus, who was not nursed in the darkness of a womb, and
