Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: one son, Orestes, and three daughters, Iphigenia, Electra and Chrysothemis.

Then Orestes had Hierax tortured in public in a theatre.

This order had two aims: the first was to quell the riot, the other to mark Orestes ' authority over Cyril.

Orestes rejected the accusations, showing that he had been baptised by the Archbishop of Constantinople.

Some Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes, the Praefectus augustalis of the Byzantine Diocese of Egypt | Diocese of Egypt, to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.

Prefect Orestes enjoyed the political backing of Hypatia, an astronomer, philosopher and mathematician who had considerable moral authority in the city of Alexandria, and who had extensive influence.

Several Christians thought that Hypatia's influence had caused Orestes to reject all reconciliatory offerings by Cyril.

Modern historians think that Orestes had cultivated his relationship with Hypatia to strengthen a bond with the Pagan community of Alexandria, as he had done with the Jewish one, to handle better the difficult political life of the Egyptian capital.

Although Orestes ’ actions were what the god Apollo had commanded him to do, Orestes had still committed matricide and because of this, he was pursued by the terrible Erinyes.

Romulus ' father Orestes was a Roman citizen, originally from Pannonia, who had served as a secretary and diplomat for Attila the Hun and later rose through the ranks of the Roman army.

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

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

Glycerius took up residence at Salona, which in 475 saw the arrival of Julius Nepos, who had retreated to Dalmatia in the face of a coup by Magister militum Orestes ; he was still in Salona when, in 476 Orestes ' son, the usurper Romulus Augustus, was deposed by Odoacer, King of the Heruli.

According to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had long ago left the mortal world by then, having been taken up to Olympus almost immediately after Menelaus ' return.

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.

He takes refuge in the temple at Delphi ; but, even though Apollo had ordered him to do the deed, he is powerless to protect Orestes from the consequences.

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.

While in Tauris Orestes is to carry off the xoanon ( carved wooden cult image ) of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and 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.

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

Thus Orestes would have been a Giant.

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.

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.

In order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes, Orestes had been ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and bring it to Athens.

Neoptolemus was killed by Orestes, Agamemmon's son, in dispute over Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus and Helen, whom Orestes had been promised as wife, but whom Neoptolemus had taken.

But after he heard that Hermione his betrothed had been given to Orestes in marriage, he went to Lacedaemon and demanded her from Menelaus.

The bones of Orestes and Theseus were supposed to have been stolen or removed from their original resting place and reburied.

On the advice of the Delphic Oracle, the Spartans searched for the bones of Orestes and brought them home, without which they had been told they could not expect victory in their war against the neighboring Tegeans.

Julius Nepos, who had been nominated by the Eastern Emperor Zeno, was deposed by the rebelled magister militum Orestes, who installed his own son Romulus in the imperial throne.

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.

Another prominent example of anagnorisis in tragedy is in Aeschylus's " The Choephoroi " (" Libation Bearers ") when Electra recognizes her brother, Orestes, after he has returned to Argos from his exile, at the grave of their father, Agamemnon, who had been murdered at the hands of Clytemnestra, their mother.

Orestes has been traveling in a quest to find himself.

Orestes is not bound by the false dichotomy of " good " and " evil ," and instead accepts what has been done, choosing to focus on the present and the future.

Saint Orestes or Edistus, after whom the settlement is named, is said to have been martyred near Monte Soratte.

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

On one occasion, Cyril sent the grammaticus Hierax to secretly discover the content of an edict that Orestes was to promulgate on the mimes shows, which attracted great crowds.

* Flavius Orestes, Roman aristocrat, is sent to Attila's court and becomes a high-ranking secretary ( notarius ).

In some versions he was sent away by Clytemnestra to avoid having him present during the murder of Agamemnon ; in others Electra herself rescued the infant Orestes and sent him away to protect him from their mother.

In 449 Orestes was sent by Attila twice to Constantinople as envoy to Emperor Valentinian III.

Orestes was killed and Odoacer deposed Romulus Augustus, installed himself as ruler over Italy and sent the Imperial insignia to Constantinople.

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

Orestes demands that he be sacrificed, and that Pylades be sent home with the letter, because Orestes brought Pylades on this trip, and it would not be right for Pylades to die while Orestes lives.

Additionally, Iphigenia will bring the statue that Orestes was sent to retrieve.