In Aeschylus's Eumenides, Orestes goes mad after the deed and is pursued by the Erinyes, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety.

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.

Orestes kills Aegisthus and then he alone goes to Clytemnestra's bed chamber and kills her as well.

They say that when Menelaus was dead, and Orestes still a wanderer, Helen was driven out by Nicostratus and Megapenthes and came to Rhodes, where she had a friend in Polyxo, the wife of Tlepolemus.

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.

In Sophocles ' version Orestes pretends to be dead and Pylades carries the urn supposedly holding his friend's remains.

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.

Electra dismisses her arguments, sure that Orestes is now dead.

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

She interprets this dream to mean that Orestes is dead.

Orestes informs Iphigenia that Agamemnon is dead, but that his son lives.

Orestes has come on the day of the dead, a day of mourning to commemorate the killing of Agamemnon fifteen years prior.

Since he supposed his sister Iphigenia was already dead, Orestes assumed that the oracle must have meant Apollo's twin sister, the goddess Diana.

He had a feud with Orestes ( son of Agamemnon ) over Menelaus ' daughter Hermione, and was killed in Delphi, where he was buried.

However, Orestes was able to escape to Piacenza, where Odoacer followed and killed him, deposing his son Romulus Augustus.

After their return to Greece, and having been saved from dangers by Athena, she orders Orestes to take the Xoanon to the town of Halae where he is to build a temple for Artemis Tauropolos and let a man be sacrificed there during every festival in atonement for his own sacrifice.

25 ), Orestes was saved by his old nurse or by Electra, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.

He claims that Orestes was led by the Furies to Tauris on the Black Sea, where his sister Iphigeneia was being held.

He then returned to Orestes ' side, where he helped him to come up with a plan to avoid execution.

To protect British interests, a naval squadron under Commander William Glascock in HMS Orestes was stationed in the Douro, where it came under fire from both sides.

He led the Swedish Chess Olympiad Team during the 1970s and 1980s, and reached his best personal result in the 23rd Chess Olympiad in Buenos Aires 1978, where he finished in third place after Viktor Korchnoi and Orestes Rodríguez Vargas.

Orestes, Pylades, and Iphigenia plan an escape whereby Iphigenia will claim that the strangers need to be cleansed in order to be sacrificed and will take them to the bay where their ship is anchored.

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's son, Orestes, was taken out of the country and put under the care of the king of Phocis, where he became friends with the king's son Pylades.

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.

Later, Vicente Orestes ' prized Berlina limousine was repossessed by Estrella del Norte where he previously purchased it and which was the same car that carried Remedios to the then high class San Juan de Dios hospital to give birth to Imelda.

He tells Orestes to go to Athens to the Areopagus, the Athenian court, in order to stand judgment, where he will later be acquitted.

They tell Electra and Orestes that their mother received just punishment but that their matricide was still a shameful act, and they instruct the siblings on what they must do to atone and purge their souls of the crime.

In Euripides ' Orestes they are for the first time " equated " with the Eumenides ( Εὐμενίδες, pl.

The original Greek chorus sang its part in Greek drama, and fragments of works by Euripides ( Orestes ) and Sophocles ( Ajax ) are known from papyri.

* Euripides ' plays Orestes and The Phoenician Women are performed.

The reasons for Orestes ' decision to crown his son as a puppet-emperor, rather than become Emperor himself, are somewhat unclear.

The Erinyes are propitiated by a new ritual, in which they are worshipped as " Semnai Theai ", " Venerable Ones ", and Orestes dedicates an altar to Athena Areia.

A dialogue entitled Erotes (" Affairs of the Heart ") and attributed to Lucian compares the merits and advantages of heterosexuality and homoeroticism, and Orestes and Pylades are presented as the principal representatives of homoerotic friendship:

When Orestes arrives at Tauris with Pylades, son of Strophius and intimate friend of Orestes, the pair are at once captured by the Tauri, among whom the custom is to sacrifice all Greek strangers to Artemis.

Many of these events are depicted in Euripides ' play Orestes.

A dialogue entitled Erotes (" Affairs of the Heart ") and attributed to Lucian compares the merits and advantages of heterosexuality and homoeroticism, and Orestes and Pylades are presented as the principal representatives of homoerotic friendship:

The other characters are Klytaemnestra, Elektra's mother and murderer of Agamemnon, Elektra's father ; her brother Orestes ; and her sister Chrysothemis.

After Aegisthus and Clytemnestra are killed on stage, Orestes is denied the crown and banished.

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.

Among his famous works are paintings and etchings of Klopstock in Elysium, Orestes and Electra, Socrates and Theramenes as well as Emperor Francis I of Austria.

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.

The story of Orestes ' revenge was told at the end of the lost epic Nostoi, and the events are also brought up in the Odyssey.

Nevertheless, Odoacer's defeat of Orestes and his son are often still used to demarcate the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Some authors, such as Euripides, have Orestes say: " For you were mine to begin with, and you are married to Neoptolemus only by the baseness of your father.

They have concealed their identities in order to get information, claiming that they are messengers from Orestes, but the aged servant who smuggled Orestes off to Phocis years before recognizes him by a scar, and the siblings are reunited.