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Pylades and Orestes
Orestes and Pylades carry out the revenge, and consequently Orestes is pursued by the Erinyes ( Furies, female personifications of vengeance ).
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 ).
Orestes at Delphi flanked by Athena and Pylades among the Erinyes and priest esses of the oracle, perhaps including Pythia behind the tripod-Paestan Red-figure pottery | red-figured bell-krater, c. 330 BC
Orestes, Elektra, and Pylades at the tomb of Agamemnon-Campanian Red-figure pottery | red-figure hydria, c. 330 BC
Orestes, Iphigeneia, and Pylades on a repoussé silver cup, Roman, first century ( British Museum )
The intense relationship between Orestes and Pylades was presented by some Greek writers as romantic or homoerotic.
A dialogue entitled Erotes (" Affairs of the Heart ") and attributed to Lucian compares the merits and advantages of heterosexuality and homoeroticism, and Orestes and Pylades are presented as the principal representatives of homoerotic friendship:
But Orestes refused to take the letter, claiming Pylades was the fitter person to do so, and thus showed himself almost to be the lover rather than the beloved.
The wider context of these remarks, describing the physical intimacy open to male pairs, indicates that the love exemplified by Orestes and Pylades would not necessarily have excluded even more overt homoerotic or homosexual elements.
The fame of Lucian's works in the 18th century, as well as the generally well-known tradition of Greco-Roman heroic homoeroticism, made it natural for theatre audiences of that period to have recognized an intense, romantic, if not positively homoerotic quality, to the relationship between Orestes and Pylades.
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.
Orestes refuses to go, but bids Pylades to take the letter while Orestes will stay to be slain.
The two met when Orestes and Pylades were brought to Iphigeneia to be prepared for sacrifice to Artemis.
Iphigeneia, Orestes, and Pylades escaped from Tauris.
During this time, Orestes and Pylades became great friends.
Strophius was also the name of one of Pylades ' sons with Electra, Orestes ' sister.
Pylades and Orestes by François Bouchot.
Pylades is shown protecting Orestes during his spell of madness.
With his friend Pylades ' assistance, Orestes murders mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.
While Pylades seems to be a very minor character, he is arguably the most vital piece of Orestes ' plan to avenge his father.
It is Pylades who convinces Orestes to follow through with his plan for revenge and carry out the murder.

Pylades and killed
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.
Meanwhile, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge his father Agamemnon with assistance from his friend Pylades.
She still hesitates, even though Pylades points out that she would have an even worse conscience if Orestes and he were killed.

Pylades and Clytemnestra
Her last performance on stage was in the opera Pylades at the Athens Concert Hall in 1992, portraying Clytemnestra.
Orestes and Pylades enter the house and slay his mother Clytemnestra.
But Pylades tells her that Agamemnon has been murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Ægisthus, in revenge for Agamemnon ’ s sacrifice of his daughter.
Pylades, Orestes ’ best friend and his accomplice in Clytemnestra ’ s murder, arrives after Menelaus has exited.

Pylades and some
The intense relationship between Pylades and Orestes was presented by some Greek writers as romantic or homoerotic.

Pylades and with
He returned home along with his friend Pylades, Strophius's son.
He went to Tauris with Pylades, and the pair were at once imprisoned by the people, among whom the custom was to sacrifice all Greek strangers to Artemis.
After a conflict of mutual affection, Pylades at last yielded, but the letter brought about the recognition of brother and sister, and all three escaped together, carrying with them the image of Artemis.
" Taking the love god as the mediator of their emotions for each other, they sailed together as it were on the same vessel of life ... nor did they restrict their affectionate friendship to the limits of Hellas .... as soon as they set foot on the land of the Tauride, the Fury of matricides was there to welcome the strangers, and, when the natives stood around them, the one was struck to the ground by his usual madness and lay there, but Pylades ' did wipe away the foam and tend his frame and shelter him with a fine well-woven robe ,' thus showing the feelings not merely of a lover, but also of a father.
After a conflict of mutual affection, Pylades at last yields, but the letter brings about recognition between brother and sister, and all three escape together, carrying with them the image of Artemis.
There he was raised with Pylades, and so considered him to be like a brother.
He went to Tauris with Pylades and the pair were at once imprisoned by the people, among whom the custom was to sacrifice all strangers to Artemis.
After a conflict of mutual affection, Pylades at last yields, but the letter brought about a recognition between brother and sister, and all three escaped together, carrying with them the image of Artemis.
" Taking the love god as the mediator of their emotions for each other, they sailed together as it were on the same vessel of life ... nor did they restrict their affectionate friendship to the limits of Hellas .... as soon as they set foot on the land of the Tauride, the Fury of matricides was there to welcome the strangers, and, when the natives stood around them, the one was struck to the ground by his usual madness and lay there, but Pylades ' did wipe away the foam and tend his frame and shelter him with a fine well-woven robe ,' thus showing the feelings not merely of a lover, but also of a father.
Orestes arrives with his friend Pylades, son of Strophius, and a pedagogue, i. e. tutor ( an old attendant of Orestes, who took him from Electra to Strophius ).
Their plan is to have the tutor announce that Orestes has died in a chariot accident, and that two men ( really Orestes and Pylades ) are arriving shortly to deliver an urn with his remains.
Orestes demands that he be sacrificed, and that Pylades be sent home with the letter, because Orestes brought Pylades on this trip, and it would not be right for Pylades to die while Orestes lives.
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's son, Orestes, was taken out of the country and put under the care of the king of Phocis, where he became friends with the king's son Pylades.
He therefore planned to rob the statue of Diana from the temple in Tauris, and he set out with his old friend Pylades for the coast of Tauris.
Scene 2: Iphigenia speaks with Pylades, who does not reveal his name.
Pylades tries to reason with him.

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