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.

Orestes explains that he has avenged Agamemnon's death by killing Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus.

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

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.

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.

The screenplay written by Orestes Matacena, Clara Hernandez and Camilo Vila has an overwhelming impact in the Cuban American community inspiring many other Cuban American filmmakers to tell their stories with their cameras.

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.

Apollo and the Furies argue about whether the matricide was justified ; Apollo holds that the bond of marriage is sacred and Orestes was avenging his father, whereas the Erinyes say that the bond of blood between mother and son is more meaningful than the bond of marriage.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

When Orestes, their son, reached manhood, he was commanded by one of Apollo ’ s oracles to avenge his father ‘ s murder at his mother ’ s hand.

He was installed as emperor by his father Orestes, the magister militum ( master of soldiers ) of the Roman army after deposing the previous emperor Julius Nepos.

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.

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

His father Orestes is arrested a week earlier near Piacenza and swiftly executed.

* October 31 – Romulus Augustus (" Little Augustus ") is installed as emperor by his father Orestes who becomes magister militum and regent of the Western Roman Empire.

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.

She and her brother Orestes plotted revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

While Orestes was away, Clytemnestra killed her husband, Orestes ' father Agamemnon.

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

Orestes was seized by a mania for fear of the barbarians ; Pylades tended to him, acting, as described in Lucian's Amores " not only like a lover but like a father.

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

He was either killed after he attempted to take Hermione from Orestes as her father Menelaus promised, or after he denounced Apollo, the murderer of his father.

Their son, Neoptolemus, later joined his father in the Trojan War but was eventually killed by Orestes.

The Coryphaeus of the Erinyes blames matricidal Orestes for having shed his own blood, but God Apollo replies that this is absolutely untrue because the mother is only a wet-nurse and not a progenitor of the child, whose blood derives from his / her unique parent: the father.

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

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

Dürrenmatt took some rather great liberties in describing the historical story-in reality, Romulus Augustulus was just a child who spent only a few months in power and depended heavily upon his father, Orestes.

* Orestes ( father of Romulus Augustulus ), a 5th-century Roman politician.