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Orestes (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (856 words) |
 | Orestês, (Greek Ὀρέστης) in Greek legend, was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. |
| The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, and Orestes, of Euripides. |
| Orestes is also the name of a song by the band A Perfect Circle which is abstractly about the myth of Orestes himself. |
| ORESTES - LoveToKnow Article on ORESTES (1090 words) |
| Orestes, after the deed, goes mad, and is pursued by the Erinyes, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety. |
| The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agameinnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, and Orestes, of Euripides. |
| Orestes, according to Zielinski, is the son of the sky-god Zeus-Agamemnon, who overcomes his wife the earth-goddess Gaia-Clytaemnestra; with the assistance of the dragon Aegisthus, she slays her husband, whose murder is in turn avenged by his son. |
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