Orestes : only son of Clytemnestra & Agamemnon. When a child, his father was murdered by Clytemnestra & her lover Aegisthus, & he was exiled. He returned & killed the lovers.
... Agamemnon.Orestes, son of Agamemnon, grown to manhood and aroused by his bitter sister Electra, avenged their father by murdering their mother, Clytaemnestra and her paramour, Aegisthus.Later on, Orestes ascended the throne and still later added Sparta to his kingdom. But from his ascension started the decline. By the end of the age that had opened with the Siege of Troy, the Achaean power was spent;... Tantalos was the founder of the Achaean dynasty; Pelops was his son, who had two sons, Atreus and Thysetes. Thysetes and his sons were killed by Atreus. Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Atreus. Orestes was the son of Agamemnon, and with his decline and death, the dynasty of Pelops was exhausted. The new dynasty that followed was that of the Dorians. Page 25 ...
... trilogy of Sophocles based on the story of the Theben king, Oedipus, and his daughter Antigone, or else, the Orestenian trilogy of Aeschylus dealing with the story of king Agamemnon and his son Orestes – Orestes was the Hamlet of Greek tragedy. The fourth piece in a tetralogy used to be something amusing, like a farce that rounded off the main programme in a Yatra performance of Bengal. But the theme ...
... gives victory still to the Argives. Page 406 Easy the Greeks to destroy lay Achilles once slain on the Troad, But if the Peleid lives the fire shall yet finish with Troya. Join then Orestes' speed to the stubborn might of Aeneas, Paris' fatal shafts and the missiles of Penthesilea. Others meanwhile, a puissant screen of our bravest and strongest, Fighting shall hold back Pylos and ...
... commander in chief of the Greek forces against Troy. On his return to Greece, he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her paramour Aegisthus; his death was avenged by his children, Electra and Orestes. Agathon: Trojan, son of Priam. Argives: alternative name for the Achaeans or Greeks. Alcimus: alternative name for Alcimedon, a Myrmidon commander. A ...
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