The chorus represents, on stage, the general population of the particular story, in sharp contrast with many of the themes of the ancient Greek plays which tended to be about individual heroes, gods, and goddesses. They were often the same sex as the main character. In Aeschylus' "Agamemnon", the chorus comprises the elderly men of Argos, whereas in Euripides' "The Bacchae", they are a group of eastern bacchantes, and in Sophocles' "Electra", the chorus represents the women of Argos. In Aeschylus' "The Eumenides", however, the chorus takes the part of a host of avenging Furies.