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	ORESTES,
		Orestes' older sister Electra, fearing for the boy's life, sent him to live with their uncle Strophius, king of Phocis.
		There he grew up with Pylades, son of Strophius, who became his lifelong companion.
		When he reached maturity, Orestes realized that he had a sacred duty to avenge the death of his father, but the crime of matricide was abhorrent to him.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=218257 (322 words)

	orestes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		With Aeschylus the punishment ends here, but, according to Euripides, in order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes, he was ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and bring it to Athens.
		He repairs to Tauris with Pylades, the son of Strophius and the intimate friend of Orestes, and the pair are at once imprisoned by the people, among whom the custom is to sacrifice all strangers to Artemis.
		The priestess of Artemis, whose duty it is to perform the sacrifice, is his sister Iphigenia.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Orestes.html (1241 words)

	Elektra, fÃ¼r, ihn, Strophius, Mythologie, KÃ¶nig Elektra (Mykene)
		Elektra, fÃ¼r, ihn, Strophius, Mythologie, KÃ¶nig Elektra (Mykene)
		SpÃ¤ter heiratet Elektra Pylades, einen engen Freund des Orest, den Sohn des KÃ¶nigs Strophius (den selben, der fÃ¼r Orest gesorgt hatte, wÃ¤hrend er von seiner Mutter und von deren Geliebten versteckt hatte).
		Elektra, fÃ¼r, ihn, Strophius, Mythologie, KÃ¶nig, Aischylos, zwÃ¶lf, vollzieht
	www.dbilink.de /Elektra-Mykene.html (364 words)

	strophius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In Greek mythology, Strophius was a King of Phocis and father of Pylades.
		When Orestes was hiding from his murderous mother, Clytemnestra, Strophius hid him.
		During this time, Orestes and Pylades became great friends.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /strophius.html (97 words)

	XXVIII. c. Agamemnon, Orestes, and Electra. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age ...
		It was intended by the conspirators to slay his son Orestes also, a lad not yet old enough to be an object of apprehension, but from whom, if he should be suffered to grow up, there might be danger.
		In the palace of Strophius Orestes grew up with the king’s son Pylades, and formed with him that ardent friendship which has become proverbial.
		He therefore repaired in disguise to Argos, pretending to be a messenger from Strophius, who had come to announce the death of Orestes, and brought the ashes of the deceased in a funeral urn.
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	XXVIII. c. Agamemnon, Orestes, and Electra. Vols. I & II: Stories of Gods and Heroes. Bulfinch, Thomas. 1913. Age ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It was intended by the conspirators to slay his son Orestes also, a lad not yet old enough to be an object of apprehension, but from whom, if he should be suffered to grow up, there might be danger.
		In the palace of Strophius Orestes grew up with the king’s son Pylades, and formed with him that ardent friendship which has become proverbial.
		He therefore repaired in disguise to Argos, pretending to be a messenger from Strophius, who had come to announce the death of Orestes, and brought the ashes of the deceased in a funeral urn.
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	GTP
		To Panopeus was born Epeus, who made, according to Homer, the wooden horse; and the grandson of Crisus was Pylades, whose father was Strophius, son of Crisus, while his mother was Anaxibi,sister of Agamemnon.
		She was married to king Strophius of Crissa, with whom she had a son and a daughter: Pylades and Astydameia.
		His father was king of Phocis; and after the death of Agamemnon, Orestes was secretly carried to his father's court.
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	Electra
		In his twentieth year, Orestes was ordered by the Delphic oracle to return home and avenge his father's death.
		The Erinyes demand their victim; he pleads the orders of Apollo; the votes of the judges are equally divided, and Athena gives her casting vote for acquittal.
		Later, Electra married Pylades, Orestes' close friend and son of King Strophius (the same one who had cared for Orestes while he hid from his mother and her lover).
	www.teachersparadise.com /ency/en/wikipedia/e/el/electra.html (433 words)

	ORESTES - LoveToKnow Article on ORESTES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		The tale is told much more fully and with many variations in the tragedians.
		He was preserved by his sister Electra from his fathers fate, and conveyed to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.
		The priestess of Artemis, ~vhose duty it is to perform the sacrifice, is his sister Iphigeneia (q.v.).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /O/OR/ORESTES.htm (1090 words)

	Mythology of Orestes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		On the murder of his father by Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, Orestes was saved from the same fate by his sister Electra, who caused him to be secretly carried to Strophius, King in Phocis, who was married to Anaxibia, the sister of Agamemnon.
		There he formed a close and intimate friendship with the king's son, Pylades; and when he had grown up, he repaired secretly to Argos with his friend, and avenged his father's death by slaying Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
		At length, on the advice of Apollo, he took refuge in the temple of Athena (Minerva), at Athens, where he was acquitted by the court of the Areopagus, which the goddess had appointed to decide his fate.
	www.sacklunch.net /mythology/O/Orestes.html (139 words)

	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		According to Pindar, Orestes was saved by his nurse Arsinoe or his sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him.
		He escaped to Phanote on Mount Parnassus, where King Strophius took charge of him.
		In his twentieth year, he was ordered by the Delphic oracle to return home and avenge his father's death.
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	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Strophius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		In Greek mythology, Strophius was a King of Phocis and father of Pylades.
		When Orestes was hiding from his murderous mother, Clytemnestra, Strophius hid him.
		During this time, Orestes and Pylades became great friends.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/st/Strophius (59 words)

	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, Alabama (AL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, rescued her infant brother Orestes from her mother by sending him to Strophius of Phocis.
		Orestes arrives with his friend Pylades, son of Strophius, and a paedagogus (an old attendant of Orestes, who took him from Electra to Strophius).
		Their plan is to have the paedagogus 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.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Electra_(Sophocles) (580 words)

	Elektra_(Mykene) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Im seinem zwanzigsten Lebensjahr wurde Orest durch das Orakel von Delphi aufgefordert, nach Hause zuruckzukehren und den Tod des Vaters zu rachen.
		Die Erinnyen als Anklager des Muttermordes fordern ihr Opfer; er verweist auf die Autorisierung durch Apollo; die Stimmen der Richter erreichen Gleichstand, und Athena gibt ihre ausschlaggebende Stimme fur die Erfullung.
		Spater heiratet Elektra Pylades, einen engen Freund des Orest, den Sohn des Konigs Strophius (den selben, der fur Orest gesorgt hatte, wahrend er von seiner Mutter und von deren Geliebten versteckt hatte).
	www.inhrenachrichten.de /nachrichten/Wikipedia.org/2005/03/07/Elektra_Mykene.html (349 words)

	DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today
		Orestes announces to Clytemnestra that Strophius (the father of his cousin and friend, Pylades) has asked him to deliver the message that Orestes is dead.
		She is played as a whore so that when she bares her breast she tries as much to seduce Orestes as to remind him of her feeding him as a baby.
		This is also rather like simple cops and robbers, with the cops now played by capos; these are not two young men raised in Strophius' genteel household.
	www.didaskalia.net /issues/vol3no2/maccho.html (891 words)

	Elektra (Mykene)
		Im seinem zwanzigsten Lebensjahr wurde Orest durch das Orakel von Delphi aufgefordert, nach Hause zurückzukehren und den Tod des Vaters zu rächen.
		Die Erinnyen als Ankläger des Muttermordes fordern ihr Opfer; er verweist auf die Autorisierung durch Apollo; die Stimmen der Richter erreichen Gleichstand, und Athene gibt ihre ausschlaggebende Stimme für die Erfüllung.
		Später heiratet Elektra Pylades, einen engen Freund des Orest, den Sohn des Königs Strophius (der für Orest gesorgt hatte, während dieser sich vor seiner Mutter und vor deren Geliebten versteckt hatte).
	www.weblexikon.de /Elektra_(Mykene).html (478 words)

	Electra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Later she was given in marriage to Pylades by her brother Orestes.
		She was the mother of Medon and Strophius.
		Even in a society such as ancient Greece where only men could work outside the home, women could be valued in subtle ways: The size of a dowry, the cost of clothes, value of jewelry, and the worth of the man she could attract.
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	Iphigeneia
		In order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes for killing his mother Clytemnestra and her lover, he is ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris (now the Crimea), carry off the statue of Artemis which had fallen from heaven, and bring it to Athens.
		He repairs to Tauris with Pylades, son of Strophius and intimate friend of Orestes, and the pair are at once imprisoned by the Tauri, among whom the custom is to sacrifice all strangers to Artemis.
		The priestess of Artemis, whose duty it is to perform the sacrifice, is his sister Iphigeneia.
	www.dejavu.org /cgi-bin/get.cgi?ver=93&url=http%3A%2F%2Farticles.gourt.com%2F%3Farticle%3DIphigeneia%26type%3Den (790 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Orestes ws a child at the time of the murder of his father and his mother was on the point of killing him too, when he was snatched out of her hands by his sister Electra and sent secretly to Strophius, king of Phocis.
		There began his lifelong friendship with Pylades, son of Strophius.
		When Orestes is older he returns to Mycenae, and with the help of Electra and Pylades he avenges the murder of his father.
	www.accd.edu /sac/english/bailey/atreus/abOreste.htm (254 words)

	Elektra
		Nach Pindar (Pythia XI 25) wurde von Elektra aufgenommen König Strophius sorgte für Aufwachsen.
		Schließlich empfängt ihn Athene auf der Akropolis von Athen und einen formalen Gerichtsprozess vor zwölf attischen Richtern Die Erinnyen als Ankläger des Muttermordes fordern Opfer; er verweist auf die Autorisierung durch die Stimmen der Richter erreichen Gleichstand und gibt ihre ausschlaggebende Stimme für die Erfüllung.
		Später heiratet Elektra Pylades einen engen des Orest den Sohn des Königs Strophius selben der für Orest gesorgt hatte während von seiner Mutter und von deren Geliebten hatte).
	www.uni-protokolle.de /Lexikon/Elektra.html (337 words)

	Pindar, Pythian 11
		Euripus - strait separating Euboaea from Boeotia; the city of Aulis, located on the mainland, was where Iphigenia was sacrificed
		Strophius - father of Pylades; married to Anaxibia, sister of Agamemnon; lived in Phocis, where Delphi was located
		Parnassus - the mountain at the foot of which Delphi was located
	mkatz.web.wesleyan.edu /cciv110x/oresteia/pythian11.htm (655 words)

	The Internet Classics Archive \| Electra by Sophocles
		PYLADES, son of Strophius, King of Crisa, the friend Of ORESTES.
		I know nothing of thy 'rumour'; but the aged Strophius charged me with tidings of Orestes.
		He is dead; and in a small urn, as thou seest, we bring the scanty relics home.
	classics.mit.edu /Sophocles/electra.html (8548 words)

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		She sends her brother to Strophius of Phocis.
		He comes with his friend Pylades who is son of Strophius and an old attendant of Orestes who took him to Strophius from Electra.
		They hatch a plan about announcing death of Orestes and his remains in a urn are being brought by
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	ELECTRA ('HMKTpa) - Online Information article about ELECTRA ('HMKTpa)
		Phocis, who had him brought up with his own son Pylades.
		Argos, where he pretends to be a messenger from Strophius bringing the See also:
		Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)
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	Sophocles, Tragedies: The Online Library of Liberty
		She gave him to a faithful retainer, who carried him to Phocis.
		There he grew up in the house of Strophius, King of Crisa near Delphi, the father of his friend Pylades.
		Electra has perforce continued to live under the same roof with the murderers.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Sophocles0235/Tragedies/HTMLs/0561_Pt05_Electra.html (10485 words)

	Greek Travelogue - Mycenae
		Electra sorely missed her father and raged for years over his murder.
		He sent little Orestes away to be raised by Agamemnon's brother-in-law, Strophius the king of Phocis, so that one day he might return and avenge their father's murder.
		When Orestes came of age, he returned to Mycenae after conferring with Apollo at Delphi and, with Electra's encouragement, killed both his mother and Aegisthus.
	www.greek-myth.com /Pale_Horse/mycenae.htm (6779 words)

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