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Orestes

In Greek mythology, Orestes ( ɒ ˈ r ɛ s t iː z ; Greek: Ὀρέστης [oréstɛːs]) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older ones.

The Internet Classics Archive | Orestes by Euripides

ORESTES Thou art wrong. MENELAUS What! wilt slay her? ORESTES Right once more. MENELAUS Ah me! what can I do? ORESTES Go to the Argives and persuade them MENELAUS To what? ORESTES Entreat the city that we may not die. MENELAUS Otherwise, will ye slay my child? ORESTES That is the alternative. MENELAUS Alas for thee, Helen! ORESTES And is it ...

(PDF) Orestes the Ephebe | John R Porter Academia edu

A re examination of the protagonist of Euripides' Orestes in light of the portrayal of young men in Greek literature and art. While figures such as the youthful Heracles exhibit "heroic" behaviors similar to those expected of adult

Aeschylus The Libation Bearers WordPress com

[Orestes cuts two locks of his hair and sets them one by one on the tomb] Here’s a lock of hair, offering to Inachus, the stream where I was raised. Here’s another, a token of my grief. I was not there, my father, to mourn your death. I couldn’t stretch 10 my hand out to you, when they carried off ...

Orestes | Greek mythology | Britannica

Orestes, in Greek mythology, son of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae (or Argos), and his wife, Clytemnestra. According to Homer, Orestes was away when his father returned from Troy to meet his death at the hands of Aegisthus, his wife’s lover. On reaching manhood, Orestes avenged his father by killing