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.

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 appointed Magister militum by Julius Nepos in 475.

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 ).

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.

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

In response, Zeus tells Orestes of how he himself has ordered the universe and nature based on Goodness, and by rejecting this Goodness, Orestes has rejected the universe itself.

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

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

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

Recovering, Orestes returned to Mycenae to kill him and take the throne.

However, Orestes was able to escape to Piacenza, where Odoacer followed and killed him, deposing his son Romulus Augustus.

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.

According to Pindar, the young Orestes was saved by his nurse Arsinoe ( Laodamia ) or his sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him.

In one version of the story of Telephus, Orestes was held captive by King Telephus, demanding that Achilles heal him.

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.

Although he did not marry Clytemnaestra, she helped him by telling him to kidnap her only son Orestes, and to threaten to kill Orestes if Achilles would not heal Telephus ' wound.

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

25 ), Orestes was saved by his old nurse or by Electra, and was taken to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.

When Orestes was 20, the Oracle of Delphi ordered him to return home and avenge his father's death.

Before her death, Clytemnestra curses Orestes and the Erinyes or Furies, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety, come to torment him.

When Orestes was hiding from his murderous mother, Clytemnestra, Strophius hid him.

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

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.

After fleeing from Italy and Orestes without opposition, Nepos returned to Dalmatia, over which he retained control.

Herodotus in Book 1, Chapter 68, describes how the Spartans uncovered in Tegea the body of Orestes which was seven cubits long — around 10 feet.

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

Graves asserts that the sacrilege for which the Erinyes pursued Orestes was actually the killing of his mother, who represented matriarchy.

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

The Erinyes are propitiated by a new ritual, in which they are worshipped as " Semnai Theai ", " Venerable Ones ", and Orestes dedicates an altar to Athena Areia.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

When they were young, their parents were killed by Orestes, who was their half-brother and the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon ( this was in revenge for Clytemnestra killing Agamemnon, which she did in revenge for Agamemnon killing their daughter Iphigenia ).

On the advice of the Delphic Oracle, the Spartans searched for the bones of Orestes and brought them home, without which they had been told they could not expect victory in their war against the neighboring Tegeans.

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

The tales told in the Cycle are recounted by other ancient sources, notably Virgil's Aeneid ( book 2 ) which recounts the sack of Troy from a Trojan perspective ; Ovid's Metamorphoses ( books 13 – 14 ), which describes the Greeks ' landing at Troy ( from the Cypria ) and the judgment of Achilles ' arms ( Little Iliad ); Quintus of Smyrna's Posthomerica, which narrates the events after Achilles ' death up until the end of the war ; and the death of Agamemnon and the vengeance taken by his son Orestes ( the Nostoi ) are the subject of later Greek tragedy, especially Aeschylus's Oresteian trilogy.

By August 28, 475, Orestes, at the head of the foederati, managed to take control of the government in Ravenna, which had acted as the capital of the Western Roman Empire since 402.

However Orestes denied the demands of Heruli, Scirian and Torcilingi mercenaries to be granted Italian lands in which to settle.