Menelaus appears as a character in a number of 5th-century Greek tragedies: Sophocles ' Ajax, and Euripides ' Andromache, Helen, Orestes, Iphigenia at Aulis, and The Trojan Women.

Extant plays by Sophocles, Aeschylus and Euripides on the tale of Orestes and Electra do not include her as a character.

While Pylades seems to be a very minor character, he is arguably the most vital piece of Orestes ' plan to avenge his father.

The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father after his mother's affair with Aegisthus.

Theatrical Manager Noah Ludlow, who was performing with Booth at the time at the American theatre in New Orleans, recounts the actual events starting on page 230 of his memoir Dramatic Life As I Found It and concludes: " Therefore I consider the story of Mr. Booth having performed Orestes in the French language, on the French stage, altogether a mistake arising from his having acted that character in the French theatre of New Orleans in 1822, but in the English language.

* Orestes, the character in Sophocles ' tragedy Electra

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, it is based around the character of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

* The character of Orestes was played by Iain Glen in the 2007 historical-fiction film The Last Legion, which shows the character during his period of rule in Rome, although the film deviates significantly from the historical record of these events.

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The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

As Aeschylus tells it, the punishment ended there, but according to Euripides, in order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes, Orestes was ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and to bring it to Athens.

According to Aeschylus, Orestes saw Electra's face before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead ; a recognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge.

Regardless, Pylades is far more than Orestes ' silent companion in Aeschylus ' The Libation Bearers.

Tired of the bloodshed, the gods exonerated Orestes and declared this the end of the curse on the house of Atreus, as described in Aeschylus ' play The Eumenides.

The classic example – Orestes – belongs to tragedy, but the procedure given by Aeschylus is ancient: the blood of a sacrificed piglet is allowed to wash over the blood-polluted man, and running water washes away the blood.

In The Eumenides of Aeschylus ( 458 BC ), the Areopagus is the site of the trial of Orestes for killing his mother ( Clytemnestra ) and her lover ( Aegisthus ).

The Libation Bearers is the English title of the center tragedy from the Orestes Trilogy of Aeschylus, in reference to the offerings Electra brings to the tomb of her dead father Agamemnon.

* Orestes in Aeschylus ' Oresteia ( 458 BC ).

He was selected by Terence Gray to appear in the opening production in November 1926 at the Festival Theatre, taking the part of Orestes in two parts of the sensational production of the Oresteia of Aeschylus.

The enduring popularity of Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy ( produced in 458 BC ) is evident in Euripides ' construction of the recognition scene between Orestes and Electra.

Unlike in Aeschylus ’ The Libation Bearers, where revenge is one of the main themes throughout the play, Sartre ’ s Orestes does not kill Aegisthus and Clytemnestra for vengeance or because it was his destiny, instead it is for the sake of the people of Argos, so that they may be freed from their enslavement.

In the chronology of events following Orestes, this play takes place after the events contained in plays such as Electra by Euripides or The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus, and before events contained in plays like The Eumenides by Aeschylus and Andromache by Euripides.

The tales told in the Cycle are recounted by other ancient sources, notably Virgil's Aeneid ( book 2 ) which recounts the sack of Troy from a Trojan perspective ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( books 13 – 14 ), which describes the Greeks ' landing at Troy ( from the Cypria ) and the judgment of Achilles ' arms ( Little Iliad ); Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, which narrates the events after Achilles ' death up until the end of the war ; and the death of Agamemnon and the vengeance taken by his son Orestes ( the Nostoi ) are the subject of later Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus's Oresteian trilogy.

Written between 408, after the Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides's death, the play was first produced the following year in a trilogy with The Bacchae and Alcmaeon in Corinth by his son or nephew, Euripides the Younger, and won the first place at the Athenian city Dionysia.

Two of his tragedies, Tragedy of Orestes and The Courageous Turk, contain speeches translated from Seneca ’ s play.

Of the fifty tragedies of Theodectes we have the names of about thirteen and a few unimportant fragments ; among them were an Ajax, Oedipus, Orestes and Philoctetes.

Thomas appeared in the play Comus for Third Programme, the day after the network launched, and his rich, sonorous voice led to character parts, including the lead in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon and Satan in an adaptation of Paradise Lost.

Aeschylus is a character in The Frogs and he is mentioned in other plays.

Aeschylus included her as a central character in his tragedy The Persians.

The hero described in his tragedies is no longer the resolute character of the plays of Aeschylus and Sophocles, but often a difficult and insecure person, not without internal conflicts.

An example of a reversal for ill would be Agamemnon's sudden murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra in Aeschylus ' The Oresteia or the inescapable situation Kate Hudson's character finds herself in at the end of The Skeleton Key.

Aeschylus ' The Persians provides a good example of one's character contributing to his hamartia.

Another piece of evidence used to support an early date is the relationship between the character of Deianeira and that of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus ' Oresteia, first produced in 458.

According to some scholars, Deianeira's character in Women of Trachis is intended as a commentary on Aeschylus ' treatment of Clytemnestra, and if this is the case this play was most likely produced reasonably soon after Oresteia, although it is also possible that such commentary was triggered by a later revival of Aeschylus ' trilogy.

Sartre even diminishes the character of Clytemnestra so that there is much less emphasis on matricide than there is in the version by Aeschylus.

The only example is the Suffering of Christ ( Christus Patiens, Χριστος πασχον ), written in the eleventh or 12th century ; of its 2, 640 verses, about one-third are borrowed from ancient dramas, chiefly from those of Euripides, and Mary, the chief character, sometimes recites verses from the " Medea " of Euripides, again from the " Electra " of Sophocles, or the " Prometheus " of Aeschylus.

The character was played by Rosamund Pike in the sequel Wrath of the Titans, the second of a planned trilogy.

He is primarily featured in the 1965 novel Dune and is also a prominent character in the Prelude to Dune prequel trilogy ( 1999-2001 ) by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson.

* Frank Martin ( character ), protagonist in the motion picture trilogy The Transporter

The USA: Land of Opportunities trilogy follows the character of Grace, and is set in a stylized American past.

Anderson is best remembered as a film maker for his " Mick Travis trilogy ", all of which star Malcolm McDowell as the title character: If .... ( 1968 ), a satire on public schools ; O Lucky Man!

The alien character of Prot in the book trilogy by Gene Brewer and played by Kevin Spacey in the movie K-PAX, like Proteus was said to embody, was a modernized " shape shifter " and magical type of advanced mystical ET who " walked in " to humanoid bodies, and shared wisdom and insights into the human condition.

The creator of the series would then go on to produce the second of his " Agri-soap " trilogy Bracken starring Gabriel Byrne whose character had appeared in the last number of season of The Riordans.

: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, and Catch Me If You Can are unofficially known as " the running man trilogy ", because each featured a main character escaping a pursuer.

( In each trilogy, there is a sense of assumed continuity ; that is, the player's character in Zork III is assumed to have experienced the events of Zork I and Zork II.

Similarly, events from Enchanter are referenced in Sorcerer and Spellbreaker ; but the Enchanter character is not assumed to be the same one from the Zork trilogy.

Dr. Leary himself called the trilogy " more important than Ulysses or Finnegans Wake ," two novels by author James Joyce-who appears as a character in The Illuminatus!

He is famous for his performances as Han Solo in the original Star Wars trilogy and the title character of the Indiana Jones film series.

* Lord Carlo Boreal, a fictional character in Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy

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Wedge is a popular and important character of the original Star Wars trilogy despite his brief screen time.

Other landmark examples include a character made up of broken pieces of a stained-glass window in Young Sherlock Holmes, a shapeshifting character in Willow, a tentacle of water in The Abyss, the T-1000 Terminator in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, hordes of armies of robots and fantastic creatures in the Star Wars prequel trilogy and The Lord of the Rings trilogy and the planet Pandora in Avatar.

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* Chloe Saunders, main character of the Darkest Powers trilogy by Kelley Armstrong, is a necromancer.

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