In most accounts, Orestes leaves Mycenae after he kills his mother and is pursued by the Furies.

Orestes returns with troops, kills Aletes, and takes the throne.

* 476 – Germanic general Odoacer kills Orestes, forces Romulus Augustus to abdicate and proclaims himself King of Italy.

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.

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.

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

Orestes slaying Aegisthus

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.

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.

After his return to Greece, Orestes took possession of his father's kingdom of Mycenae ( killing Aegisthus ' son, Alete ) to which were added Argos and Laconia.

Murder of Aegisthus by Orestes and Pylades-red-figure Apulian oinochoe ( wine jug ), c. 430-300 BC

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

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

Pylades and Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ( in some accounts with Electra helping ).

Orestes had been sent to Phocis during his mother Clytemnestra's affair with Aegisthus.

With his friend Pylades ' assistance, Orestes murders mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Seven or eight years after the death of Agamemnon, Agamemnon's son Orestes returned to Mycenae and, with the help of his cousin Pylades and his sister Electra, killed both their mother, Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus.

She saved his life by sending him to Strophius after the murder of Agamemnon, whereas Aegisthus killed her own son, taking him for Orestes.

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.

This was the source of the curse that haunted future generation of Hippodamia's and Pelops ' children, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.

This curse would haunt future generation of Pelops ' family, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, Orestes and Chrysippus.

This was the source of the curse that haunted future generation of Pelops ' children, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.

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

In The Eumenides of Aeschylus ( 458 BC ), the Areopagus is the site of the trial of Orestes for killing his mother ( Clytemnestra ) and her lover ( Aegisthus ).

The insanity of Saul is skilfully managed ; and the horrid joy of Orestes in killing Aegisthus rises finely and naturally to madness in finding that, at the same time, he had inadvertently slain his mother.

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

Orestes then built a larger state in the Peloponnesus, but he died in Arcadia from a snake bite.

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.

Things soon changed after Orestes committed matricide: Menelaus then gave his daughter to Neoptolemus, son of Achilles and Deidamia.

Iphigenia then offers to release Orestes if he will carry home a letter from her to Greece.

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

However, other stories say that when Aletes and Erigone came of age and became rulers at Mycenae, Orestes returned with an army then killed his half-brother and raped his half-sister, who gave birth to a son, Penthilus.

Orestes then pronounced his own son, Romulus Augustus, as Emperor.

* 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 )

Chrysothemis then enters: she has seen some offerings at the tomb of Agamemnon and ( correctly ) concludes that Orestes has returned.

He lifts the veil to discover who it really is, and Orestes then reveals himself.

Alcmaeon was then pursued by the Erinyes, similar to the fate of Orestes after killing his mother Clytemnestra.

She occupied the house Vicente Orestes built two years ago, also on General Solano street, for his then wife, the Moorish-looking mestiza Juanita Acereda of Barrio Tanghas, Tolosa, Leyte ( she died before the house was finished and was interred in San Miguel Pro-Cathedral ).

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.

Orestes and Pylades then exit so that they may state their case before the town assembly in an effort to save Orestes and Electra from execution, which proves unsuccessful.

Menelaus then enters leading to a standoff between him and Orestes, Electra, and Pylades, who have successfully captured Hermione.