It is Pylades who convinces Orestes to follow through with his plan for revenge and carry out the murder.

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

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.

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

Apollo advocates Orestes at the trial, and ultimately Athena rules with Apollo.

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.

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.

The Erinyes appeared as Orestes ’ accusers, while Apollo spoke in defence.

The god Apollo takes part in the trial as the advocate for the defendant Orestes, and the Furies as prosecutors for the slain Clytaemnestra.

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.

In Euripides ' play Elecktra, Orestes questions an oracle who calls upon him to kill his mother, and wonders if the oracle was not from Apollo, but some malicious alastor.

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.

Apollo arrived to settle the situation and gave them all instructions, including one for Pylades to marry Orestes ' sister Electra.

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.

The Erinyes were the avengers for the mother-blood Orestes spilled by ordering of Apollo.

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.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

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.

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

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

Iphigenia and Orestes don ’ t recognize each other.

Another example includes Iphigenia ’ s brother, Orestes, discovering her identity and helping him steal an image of Artemis.

Goffe ’ s second play in believed to be The Tragedy of Orestes which was produced circa 1613-1618 and published in 1633.

The Tragedy of Orestes is the story of Aegisthus ’ s murder of Agamemnon with Clytemnestra ’ s help.

Orestes is told that if he brings his fathers bones to a magic woman named Canidia, she will reveal his father ’ s murderer.

When the truth is revealed, Orestes kills the baby born of Aegisthus and his mother and forces the parents to drink the child ’ s blood.

Eventually, Orestes and Pylades die by running on each other ’ s sword.

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

Orestes was Mee ’ s breakthrough play in 1992.

Orestes also spoke of Pelops ’ ancient spear, which he brandished in his hands when he killed Oenomaus and won Hippodamia, the maid of Pisa, which was hidden away in Iphigenia ’ s maiden chamber.

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.

The plays tell the story of the curse on the House of Atreus: Agamemnon ’ s murder by his wife, the revenge of their son, Orestes, upon his mother, and Orestes ’ trial in Athens.

In tone and theme, it ’ s similar to Jorge Ulla ’ s Guaguasí ( 1982 ), which had less distribution in the U. S. The Guaguasí screenplay, written by Orestes Matacena, Clara Hernandez and Ulla, portrays a simple man from the countryside, played by actor Orestes Matacena, who is brutalized by his experiences with the revolutionary government in Cuba.

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.

Orestes tells her of Clytemnestra's murder, stabbed by Orestes at Electra ’ s urging, and reveals his true identity, because he cannot bear Iphigenia's distress at this news: Let there be truth between us: I am Orestes.

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.

Orestes orders him to open the door so that he may address his people.

Elsinore seems to lie in a range of Mycenae, and the fate of Orestes resounds in that of Hamlet.

Beginning in 1836, Alcott's membership in the Transcendental Club put him in such company as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Orestes Brownson and Theodore Parker.

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.

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

Thus misfortune hounded successive generations of the House of Atreus, until atoned by Orestes in a court of justice held jointly by humans and gods.

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.

* 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.

Aegisthus being murdered by Orestes ( mythology ) | Orestes — Louvre.

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.

Orestes, Praefectus augustalis of the Diocese of Egypt, steadfastly resisted Cyril's agenda of ecclesiastical encroachment onto secular prerogatives.

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.

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.

According to Christian sources, the Jews of Alexandria schemed against the Christians and killed many of them ; Cyril reacted and expelled either all of the Jews, or else only the murderers, from Alexandria, actually exerting a power that belonged to the civil officer, Orestes.

Orestes was powerless, but nonetheless rejected Cyril's gesture of offering him a Bible, which would mean that the religious authority of Cyril would require Orestes ' acquiescence in the bishop's policy.

This refusal almost cost Orestes his life.

Nitrian monks came from the desert and instigated a riot against Orestes among the population of Alexandria.

The monks assaulted Orestes and accused him of being a pagan.