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

Orestes and Pylades carry out the revenge, and consequently Orestes is pursued by the Erinyes ( Furies, female personifications of vengeance ).

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.

This is reflected in the legend of the coming of Orestes to Nemi and of the inhumation of his bones in the Roman Forum near the temple of Saturn.

The cult introduced by Orestes at Nemi is apparently that of the Artemis Tauropolos.

# The Electra ( Elektra ) paradox: Electra doesn't know that the man approaching her is her brother, Orestes.

The Forgotten Pistolero is based on the vengeance of Orestes.

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.

He is also accused of murdering his first wife and son so that he could marry the wealthy and beautiful Aurelia Orestilla, daughter of the Consul of 71 BC, Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes.

Following Nepos ' departure, Orestes enthroned his own teenage son as the new Western Emperor, in the same year, with the regnal name Romulus Augustus ; the second element is often used in the diminutive " Augustulus " ( little Augustus ).

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

In the Homeric story, Orestes was a member of the doomed house of Atreus which is descended from Tantalus and Niobe.

In the Odyssey, Orestes is held up as a favorable example to Telemachus, whose mother Penelope is plagued by suitors.

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.

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.

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

Orestes appears also to be a dramatic prototype for all persons whose crime is mitigated by extenuating circumstances.

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.

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.

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.

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

Orestes ' guard, fearing to be stoned by the monks, fled leaving Orestes alone.

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.

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

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, 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.

Modern mambo began with a song called " Mambo " written in 1938 by brothers Orestes and Cachao López.

by Orestes Ferrara ; ( 1929 ) online edition

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.

Orestes was appointed Magister militum by Julius Nepos in 475.

He petitions Orestes ( magister militum ) to reward his mercenaries for their services and their support of his rebellion a year earlier, by making good on his promise to grant them lands to settle permanently in Italy.

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.

Orestes was never able to consolidate power beyond Italy, or gain the Eastern Emperor's recognition for his son's ascension, and when he failed to make good on his promises to the Foederati ( foreign mercenaries ), they rose up against him.

Orestes, unsure of who murdered his father, asks the help of his good friend, Plyades.

Scene 4: Pylades announces that Orestes is in good spirits, that the boat is ready, and urges her to hurry.

" Writing several centuries later, Orestes Brownson, an apologist for Savonarola, mentions artwork only by Fra Bartolomeo, Lorenzo di Credi, and " many other painters ," along with " several antique statues.

" Orestes Brownson on Catholicism and Republicanism ," Modern Age Volume 45, Number 4 ; Fall 2003 online edition

* Tarkow, T. " The Scar of Orestes: Observations on a Euripidean Innovation ," Rheinisches Museum 124 ( 1981 ), 143-53.