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.

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.

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

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.

However, the monks were not satisfied, and one of them, Ammonius, threw a stone and hit Orestes in the head, and so much blood flowed out that he was covered in it.

Orestes was cured and put Ammonius under torture in a public place, killing him.

According to lexicographer William Smith, " She was accused of too much familiarity with Orestes, prefect of Alexandria, and the charge spread among the clergy, who took up the notion that she interrupted the friendship of Orestes with their archbishop, 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.

A decisive battle was fought with Tisamenus, son of Orestes, the chief ruler in the peninsula, who was defeated and slain.

It was Arcano's cellist, Orestes Lopez, whose " Mambo " was the first modern song of the genre.

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.

Orestes was captured near Piacenza on 28 August 476 and swiftly executed.

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

He was Pylades to William Charles Macready's Orestes in Ambrose Philips's Distressed Mother when Macready made his first appearance at that theatre ( 1816 ).

Unable to appoint himself as the Western Roman Emperor, Orestes instead appointed his son Romulus Augustus as Romulus was a citizen of Rome.

In 475, Orestes was appointed magister militum and patricius by Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos.

Shortly after, Odoacer, magister militum appointed by Julius, invaded Italy, defeated Orestes, and deposed Romulus Augustus on September 4, 476.

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.

In 475, Orestes, the Magister militum (" master of soldiers ", equivalent to general of the army ) in the west, revolted against Emperor Julius Nepos and seized the Italian Peninsula.

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.

* 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.

Nepos ' rule in Italy ended in 475, when he was deposed by his magister militum, Orestes.

When Nepos made the mistake of appointing the untrustworthy Orestes as his magister militum, his lack of a western core of support came back to haunt him.

* 475 – Julius Nepos forced to flee to Dalmatia by his magister militum Orestes.

In June 474, Julius Nepos became Western Emperor but in the next year the magister militum Orestes revolted and made his son Romulus Augustus emperor.

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.

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

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.

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

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

by Orestes Ferrara ; ( 1929 ) online edition