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	Orestes (mythology) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orestes (856 words)

	ORESTES - LoveToKnow Article on ORESTES
		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.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORESTES.htm (1090 words)

	Orestes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Orestes, in Greek legend, was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
		Orestes, after the deed (sometimes with Electra helping), goes mad, and is pursued by the Erinyes (Electra is not hounded by the Erinyes), whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety.
		Orestes, according to Zielinski, is the son of the sky-god Zeu/Agamemnon (the two are identified as the same symbolic being) who overcomes his wife, the earth-goddess Gai/Clytemnestra (also identified with each other).
	www.theezine.net /o/orestes.html (1209 words)

	Orestes 2, Greek Mythology Link.
		Orestes 2 was then taken to Phocis (which is the region bordering the Gulf of Corinth west of Boeotia) to the house of Strophius 1, son of Crisus, son of Phocus 3, son of Aeacus and the Nereid Psamathe 1.
		to reign in Sparta, and yield to Orestes 2 the throne of Argos and Mycenae.
		Orestes 2 also succeeded to the throne of Sparta, for the Lacedaemonians considered his claim to the throne prior to that of Nicostratus and Megapenthes 1, these being sons of Menelaus by one or perhaps two slave women, whereas Orestes 2 was the son of one of the daughters of King Tyndareus.
	homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Orestes2.html (5386 words)

	SparkNotes: The Flies: Act III
		Orestes attempts to convince her that they must assume responsibility for the murders together, but Electra cannot find the strength to do so and the Furies goad her into reliving the murders and seeing Orestes as a frightening murderer.
		Orestes sees himself as the savior of the city, but Jupiter mocks him, saying that the Argives hate their "savior" and are waiting outside to kill him; he is completely alone.
		Orestes stands up and tells the Argives who he is. He informs them that he has taken their crimes upon himself and that they must learn to build a new life for themselves without remorse.
	www.sparknotes.com /drama/theflies/section6.rhtml (2928 words)

	The Classics Pages - Euripides' Orestes
		Orestes : You are as beautiful as any woman, but you think like a man: your instinct is to fight for life - and you deserve to live.
		But Orestes - He was wearing Mycenaean hunting-boots - Wound his fingers in her hair And twisted her head Till it touched her shoulder - the left - And he was poised to plunge The fl sword in her neck.
		Menelaus, let Orestes rule the Argive land: You go and reign on Sparta's throne, A compensation for the wife you lost, And all the grief she heaped on you.
	www.users.globalnet.co.uk /~loxias/orestes.htm (11962 words)

	Orestes
		Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and the brother of Electra.
		Orestes, who was quite young at the time, went into exile and swore to get revenge.
		As a consequence of his deed, Orestes was tormented by the Erinyes, or Furies, who followed him everywhere he went.
	www.pantheon.org /articles/o/orestes.html (140 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Orestes by Euripides
		After this my poor Orestes fell sick of a cruel wasting disease; upon his couch he lies prostrated, and it is his mother's blood that goads him into frenzied fits; this I say, from dread of naming those goddesses, whose terrors are chasing him before them,-even the Eumenides.
		Then to the Spartan maid Orestes spake, "Daughter of Zeus, quit thy chair and cross the floor to a seat at the old altar of Pelops, our ancestor, to hear something I have to say." Therewith he led the way and she followed, little guessing his designs.
		Likewise, it is ordained, Orestes, that thou shalt wed Hermione, at whose neck thou art pointing thy sword; Neoptolemus shall never marry her, though he thinks he will; for his death is fated to o'ertake him by a Delphian sword, when he claims satisfaction of me for the death of his father Achilles.
	classics.mit.edu /Euripides/orestes.html (4406 words)

	Euripides' Orestes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Tyndareus arrives, disgusted at the sight of Orestes: that Clytemnestra was wrong does not matter, for murder must be met with law and banishment if the cycle of revenge is to be stopped.
		Orestes' defense is a confused jumble of arguments used in the Oresteia (my father was the true agent of my birth, my mother corrupted his bed, all wives will kill their husbands if I am punished).
		Orestes and Pylades appear on the roof with swords threatening Hermione, while Electra waves a torch and threatens to burn down the house.
	classics.uc.edu /~johnson/tragedy/summaries/orestes.html (392 words)

	Orestes, By Euripides
		ORESTES That will I; for that has a semblance of health; and that seeming, though it be far from the reality, is preferable to this.
		ORESTES Had he returned alone in safety, he were more to be envied; for if he is bringing his wife with him, he is bringing a load of evil.
		ORESTES (staggering towards him from the couch) Behold the object of thy inquiry, Menelaus; this is Orestes.
	www.sacred-texts.com /cla/eurip/orestes.htm (4747 words)

	Summary of The Libation Bearers (second play in Oresteia trilogy)
		Orestes tells her that he is a traveller from Phocis and that a fellow Phocian told him to stop by Argos and tell the rulers there that Orestes has died.
		Orestes asks Pylades what he should do; Pylades answers with his only lines in the whole play, reminding Orestes to obey the oracle of Delphi and to carry out his sworn oath: "Better to be hated by every man on earth than hated by the gods" (lines 900-902).
		Orestes tells his mother that he means to drag her in the house and sacrifice her "at his [Aegisthus'] side.
	faculty.gvsu.edu /websterm/Libation.htm (2231 words)

	Orestes
		Orestes (AGP–10) was laid down as LST–135 at Chicago, Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca, Ill., 8 July 1943; launched 16 November 1943; sponsored by Mrs.
		LST–708 later towed Orestes back to Leyte, 27 January 1945, and after temporary repairs she departed 24 February on a slow voyage back to the States, arriving San Francisco 13 May. There shipyard personnel went to work and 202,500 manhours of labor later they had completely rejuvenated AGP–10.
		Orestes served under the Commander Motor Torpedo Boats, Phillippine Sea Frontier until 17 December when she sailed eastward with naval passengers for Pearl Harbor and the States, arriving San Pedro, 3 February, 1946.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/o3/orestes.htm (422 words)

	Electra
		Orestes replies with a speech on the injunction of Apollo and the manner in which he means to execute it, then addresses a prayer to the gods and to his father's house.
		Now enters the keeper of Orestes, and in the character of a messenger from a Phocian friend, describes his death at a chariot race in the Pythian games, though the news afterward proves to be false.
		Chrysothemis, full of joy, returns from the tomb with the assurance that Orestes is near at hand, for she has found there a lock of his hair, his drink-offering, and wreaths of flowers.
	www.theatrehistory.com /ancient/bates022.html (1754 words)

	Willem Hofhuizen, Orestes' revenge
		Years later, Orestes secretly returns from exile, and together with his cousin Pylades he kills Clytemnestra and Aigisthos.
		Avenging Furies of Clytemnestra chase Orestes to Delphi and from there to Athens, where, at the instigation of Apollo, Athena establishes a court of law for the trial of homicide cases and Orestes is found innocent.
		Orestes is still killing his mother on the left, and Pylades is still taking care of Aighistos on the right.
	www.hofhuizen.com /orestes/orestes_en.htm (206 words)

	Roman Emperors - DIR Romulus Augustulus
		The report by the chronicler Victor of Tonnena that Orestes' son was named Herculanus, and made an abortive attempt to seize power after the death of Anthemius, seems to be an erroneous reference to Romulus.
		Odovacar condemned Augustulus, the son of Orestes, to exile in the castle of Lucullus in Campania" ("Odoacar rex Gothorum Romam obtinuit.
		Orestes was quickly defeated and executed in August of that year.
	www.roman-emperors.org /auggiero.htm (2548 words)

	Sample Student Notes, CLASS 226, U. of Saskatchewan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But Orestes is not sorry for what he has done, and as the play unfolds and he presents his true self, this fact is revealed.
		Orestes is self-centered and thinks only of himself even as he holds a knife to the girl's throat.
		Orestes is saved from death, pronounced ruler of Argos, and told that he shall marry Hermione.
	duke.usask.ca /~porterj/Exams/herndier.html (944 words)

	Alex Hawkins, Intertextuality in Euripides' Orestes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The main problem with staging the Orestes in North America in the 1990s is that the intertextual reference points for the original audience — that is, earlier depictions of the sequence of events that take place in the play, and the characters of Orestes, Electra, and Pylades — are not present for the modern-day audience.
		The references by Tyndareus in Orestes to Electra, "who stuffed [Orestes'] ears day in and day out with her malice..., telling [him] her dreams of Agamemnon's ghost and what he said" call to mind the depiction of Electra in both Aeschylus and Sophocles.
		In addition, the depiction of Orestes' torment at the hands of the (invisible) Furies in Orestes repeat the motif established by Aeschylus at the end of The Libation Bearers.
	duke.usask.ca /~porterj/abstracts/hawkins.html (679 words)

	Orestes
		Orestes, in Greek mythology, was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the rulers of Mycenae, or Argos.
		When Orestes was grown up, the god Apollo ordered him to avenge his father's death by killing Clytemnestra.
		Orestes later married Hermione, the daughter of Helen of Troy and Menelaus, the king of Sparta.
	www.jssgallery.org /Paintings/MFA/Orestes.htm (205 words)

	Orestes, in Greek mythology
		Orestes, in Greek mythology, the only son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon and brother of Electra and Iphigenia.
		After the slaying of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Orestes, still a boy, was sent to live in exile.
		Since it was the duty of the senior male in the house to punish the murderers, Orestes was commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0836831.html (348 words)

	Francis Bacon Image Gallery_Triptych inspired by the Oresteia of Aeschylus, 1981 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		At left, the haunting and obscene symbol of the Erinyes, the Furies that relentlessly pursued a hallucinating Orestes for the murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, dangles like an obscene bat-like creature in a cage structure.
		The ceremonial dais and a schematic throne can be read as the high position of the king who met his death at the hands of the gueen mother, out of vengeance for his own sacrificial murder of their daughter Iphigenia.
		The third panel evokes both victim and oppressor and may stand for the tragic hero Orestes as well as the undefined shapes and darkness of unformed life (the elan vital or libido), lifting the chilling painting to an even higher level of allegorical meaning.
	www.francis-bacon.cx /triptychs/oresteia.html (246 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Electra by Euripides
		Now Aegisthus was examining the entrails, separating them in his hands, and as he was bending down, thy brother rose on tiptoe and smote him on the spine, severing the bones of his back; and his body gave one convulsive shudder from head to foot and writhed in the death-agony.
		Still, wronged as I was, my rage had not burst forth for this, nor would I have slain my lord, had he not returned to me with that frenzied maiden and made her his mistress, keeping at once two brides beneath the same roof.
		ORESTES and ELECTRA come out of the hut, followed by attendants who are carrying the two corpses.
	classics.mit.edu /Euripides/electra_eur.html (8530 words)

	Simmons: Releasing the Oligarch Within: Euripides' Orestes
		Euripides' Orestes is the first of the three plays produced at the end of his life that reveal his preoccupation with changing Athenian leadership dynamics as the Peloponnesian War comes to a painful close.
		Followed by Iphigenia in Aulis and the Bacchae, produced after Euripides' death in 406, Orestes depicts a society in which the aristocracy is conspicuously enervated, unprincipled, and lethargic, nudged further toward irrelevance by demagogues' manipulation of the masses.
		They deter Menelaos from action, Tyndareus seeks their support to condemn Orestes, and Orestes calls them a dangerous force when they are effectively led, as by demagogues.
	www.camws.org /meeting/2005/abstracts2005/simmons.html (360 words)

	AllRefer.com - Orestes, Roman general (Ancient History, Late Roman And Byzantine, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Orestes, Roman general, Ancient History, Late Roman And Byzantine, Biographies
		With the help of barbarians he deposed (475) the Roman emperor of the West, Julius Nepos, and raised his own son, Romulus Augustulus, to the throne.
		The next year the barbarians under Odoacer revolted; Orestes was killed at Piacenza, and his son was deposed.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/O/Orestes1.html (186 words)

	Orestes Indiana
		Orestes is a small pleasant neighborhood in Indiana's heartland and is the home of a historic white oak tree, the best tasting tomato products in America and some of the friendliest people in the world.
		The name Orestes was uncommon and was adopted as the new name of our town.
		A very special thanks goes to fine folks of Orestes and nearby countryside for the great photographs and amusing tales of their families and community long ago.
	zenas4.tripod.com /orestesindianahistory (234 words)

	Encyc - O
		Orestes was persued by the Furies for committing matricide, they drove him mad and he chased him from land to land.
		Orestes and Pylades travel to the statue of Artemis in Tauris after Apollo advises that it will cure his madness.
		Orestes had been betrothed to his cousin Hermione however Neoptolemus claimed her and they were only married after Orestes killed Neoptolemus.
	www.sulkyblue.co.uk /classics/encyc/o.html (882 words)

	Obituary Dates - Orestes Indiana
		The list displayed here is the most complete list of Orestes obituaries but is not even remotely complete.
		We regret we cannot list the entire obituary but are pleased to offer the names as a tribute.
		Lucy McMahan Perry of north of Orestes died in 1928, w of Dr. Andrew J Perry
	zenas4.tripod.com /orestesindianahistory/id148.html (1063 words)

	Orestes Brownson
		Orestes Augustus Brownson, philosopher, minister, essayist, and reviewer, was born in Stockbridge, Vermont in 1803.
		Relief Metcalf, Orestes' mother, sent him to Royalton, Vermont.
		There he lived in a Puritan/Calvinistic atmosphere with a couple of elderly farmers until he was fourteen.
	www.vcu.edu /engweb/transcendentalism/authors/brownson (899 words)

	PAL: Orestes Augustus Brownson (1803-1876) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Barcus, James E. "Structuring the Rage Within: The Spiral Autobiographies of Newman and Orestes Brownson." Cithara 15.1 (1975): 45-57.
		Hanigan, James P., S.J. "Orestes Brownson and the Election of 1840." Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia 73 (1962): 45-50.
		Orestes Brownson and the American Republic: An Historical Perspective.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap4/brownson.html (402 words)

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