Orestes explains that he has come to this land by the bidding of Phoebus ’ s oracle, and that if he is successful, he might finally be free of the haunting Erinyes.

Orestes explains his misunderstanding of the oracle ’ s reference to a sister.

Apollo promises to protect Orestes, as Orestes has become Apollo's supplicant.

Orestes has a root in ὄρος ( óros ), " mountain ".

There is extant a Latin epic poem, consisting of about 1000 hexameters, called Orestes Tragoedia, which has been ascribed to Dracontius of Carthage.

In Euripides ’ other story about Iphigenia, Iphigenia in Tauris, the play takes place after the sacrifice and after Orestes has killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

In order for Orestes to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes for killing his mother, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Orestes has been ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris.

The significance of Pylades ' lines has invited speculation into whether or not he might represent something more than human next to Orestes ; he might play the role of divine encouragement or fate.

* Orestes: Identified as a drunken and violent loiterer in The Acharnians, he has since then added clothes-stealing to his bag of tricks ( lines 712, 1490 )

The play begins years later when Orestes has returned as a grown man with a plot for revenge, as well as to claim the throne.

Their plan is to have the tutor announce that Orestes has died in a chariot accident, and that two men ( really Orestes and Pylades ) are arriving shortly to deliver an urn with his remains.

Chrysothemis then enters: she has seen some offerings at the tomb of Agamemnon and ( correctly ) concludes that Orestes has returned.

Furthermore, she has had a prophetic dream about her younger brother Orestes and believes that he is dead.

Meanwhile, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge his father Agamemnon with assistance from his friend Pylades.

Orestes was sent by Apollo to retrieve the image of Artemis from the temple, and Pylades has accompanied him.

She believes that her father's bloodline has ended with the death of Orestes.

While the old servant goes to lure Clytemnestra to Electra's house by telling her that her daughter has had a baby, Orestes sets off and kills Aegisthus and returns with the body.

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There is one other theory which has been put forward, but which can only apply to non-peristylar temples, that light and air was admitted through the metopes, the apertures between the beams crossing the cella, and it has been assumed that because Orestes was advised in one of the Greek plays to climb up and look through the metopes of the temple, these were left open ; but if Orestes could look in, so could the birds, and the statue of the god would be defiled.

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.

After this event Aegisthus reigned seven years longer over Mycenae, until in the eighth Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, returned home and avenged the death of his father by putting the adulterer to death.

Seven years later, Orestes returned from Athens and with his sister Electra avenged his father's death by slaying his mother and her lover Aegisthus.

Orestes has avenged his father by murdering his mother, and has been pursued ever since by the implacable Furies.

Apollo gives an order through the Oracle at Delphi that Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, her lover.

Agamemnon's son Orestes, who had been away, returned and conspired with his sister Electra to avenge their father.

Orestes was absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, in retribution for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia to obtain favorable winds during the Greek voyage to Troy.

Agamemnon's only son, Orestes, was quite young when his mother killed his father.

Seven or eight years after the death of Agamemnon, Agamemnon's son Orestes returned to Mycenae and, with the help of his cousin Pylades and his sister Electra, killed both their mother, Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus.

The story Nestor tells of Orestes in particular serves as a model for Telemachus to emulate: just as Orestes killed the overbearing suitor who occupied his father Agamemnon's estate, so should Telemachus kill the suitors and reclaim his own father's estate.

Later Agamemnon's and Clytemnestra's son Orestes avenges the murder by killing both of them.

Modern studies represent Hypatia's death as the result of a struggle between two Christian factions, the moderate Orestes, supported by Hypatia, and the more rigid Cyril.

When Orestes was 20, the Oracle of Delphi ordered him to return home and avenge his father's death.

Before her death, Clytemnestra curses Orestes and the Erinyes or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety, come to torment him.

As an adult, Orestes returns to Mycenae / Argos seeking revenge for the death of Agamemnon.

" Virgil, in book IV of the Aeneid, references the House of Atreus and specifically Orestes in describing the death of Dido.

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According to Euripides's Orestes, Tyndareus was still alive at the time of Menelaus's return, and was trying to secure the death penalty for his grandson Orestes due to the latter's murder of Tyndareus's daughter, Clytemnestra, but according to other accounts he had died prior to the Trojan War.

Chryses, with help from Orestes, was also responsible for the death of Thoas.

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.

When the messenger arrives with news of the death of Orestes, Clytemnestra is relieved to hear it.

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.

In the Odyssey, Orestes ' return to Argos and taking revenge for his father's death is held up several times as a model for Telemachus ' behavior ( see Telemachy ).

Orestes was killed and Romulus deposed ( but not killed ) by Odoacer in 476, and Julius Nepos continued to reign as Emperor-in-exile until his death in 480 ( the Eastern Emperor did not recognise Romulus Augustulus and considered him a usurper ).

Their son, Orestes, in turn sought vengeance for the death of his father by killing his mother.

The play recounts the story of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus, who had deposed and killed him.

While Electra is guilt-stricken after the death of Clytemnestra, Orestes feels no remorse for killing his mother, so his relationship with her is not very important.

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