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href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orest" title="Orest – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Orest" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%90%D1%80%D1%8D%D1%81%D1%82_(%D0%BC%D1%96%D1%84%D0%B0%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%96%D1%8F)" title="Арэст (міфалогія) – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Арэст (міфалогія)" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82" title="Орест – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Орест" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(mab_Agamemnon)" title="Orestes (mab Agamemnon) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Orestes (mab Agamemnon)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(mitologia)" title="Orestes (mitologia) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Orestes (mitologia)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orest%C3%A9s" title="Orestés – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Orestés" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9F%CF%81%CE%AD%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82" title="Ορέστης – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ορέστης" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresto" title="Oresto – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Oresto" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B3" title="اورستس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اورستس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste" title="Oreste – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Oreste" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%98%A4%EB%A0%88%EC%8A%A4%ED%85%8C%EC%8A%A4" title="오레스테스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="오레스테스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%95%D6%80%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%A9%D5%A5%D5%BD" title="Օրեսթես – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Օրեսթես" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orest_(mitologija)" title="Orest (mitologija) – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Orest (mitologija)" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste_(figlio_di_Agamennone)" title="Oreste (figlio di Agamennone) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Oreste (figlio di Agamennone)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%A1" title="אורסטס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="אורסטס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%92%E0%B2%B0%E0%B3%86%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D%E0%B2%9F%E0%B3%80%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಒರೆಸ್ಟೀಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಒರೆಸ್ಟೀಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9D%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%A1%E1%83%A2%E1%83%94" title="ორესტე – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ორესტე" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orest%C3%AAs" title="Orestês – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="Orestês" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kurdî</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orests" title="Orests – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Orests" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestas" title="Orestas – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Orestas" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreszt%C3%A9sz_(Agamemn%C3%B3n_fia)" title="Oresztész (Agamemnón fia) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Oresztész (Agamemnón fia)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B3%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B3" title="اوريستيس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="اوريستيس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(mythologie)" title="Orestes (mythologie) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Orestes (mythologie)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AA%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B9" title="オレステース – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="オレステース" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(mytologi)" title="Orestes (mytologi) – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Orestes (mytologi)" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(mitologia)" title="Orestes (mitologia) – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Orestes (mitologia)" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreste" title="Oreste – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Oreste" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82" title="Орест – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Орест" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes" title="Orestes – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Orestes" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sq mw-list-item"><a href="https://sq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oresti" title="Oresti – Albanian" lang="sq" hreflang="sq" data-title="Oresti" data-language-autonym="Shqip" data-language-local-name="Albanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Shqip</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orestes_(Agamemn%C3%B3nov_syn)" title="Orestes (Agamemnónov syn) – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Orestes (Agamemnónov syn)" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9E%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81%D1%82" title="Орест – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Орест" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" 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vcard" style="width: 22.5em;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn" style="background: #99BADD; color: #000000;;font-size: 125%"><div class="fn" style="display:inline">Orestes</div></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #EEEEEE;"><a href="/wiki/List_of_kings_of_Sparta" title="List of kings of Sparta">Legendary King of Sparta</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Menelaus" title="Menelaus">Menelaus</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Tisamenus_(son_of_Orestes)" title="Tisamenus (son of Orestes)">Tisamenus</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background: #EEEEEE;"><span style="height: 4px"> </span></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><span class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse(s)</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;">(i) <a href="/wiki/Hermione_(mythology)" title="Hermione (mythology)">Hermione</a><br />(ii) <a href="/wiki/Erigone_(daughter_of_Aegisthus)" title="Erigone (daughter of Aegisthus)">Erigone</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Agamemnon" title="Agamemnon">Agamemnon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clytemnestra" title="Clytemnestra">Clytemnestra</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orestes_Delphi_BM_GR1917.12-10.1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Orestes_Delphi_BM_GR1917.12-10.1.jpg/250px-Orestes_Delphi_BM_GR1917.12-10.1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Orestes_Delphi_BM_GR1917.12-10.1.jpg/330px-Orestes_Delphi_BM_GR1917.12-10.1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/14/Orestes_Delphi_BM_GR1917.12-10.1.jpg/500px-Orestes_Delphi_BM_GR1917.12-10.1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1900" data-file-height="1900" /></a><figcaption>Orestes at <a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a> flanked by <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pylades" title="Pylades">Pylades</a> among the Erinyes and <a href="/wiki/Priest" title="Priest">priestesses</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Oracle" title="Oracle">oracle</a>, perhaps including <a href="/wiki/Pythia" title="Pythia">Pythia</a> behind the tripod – Paestan <a href="/wiki/Red-figure_pottery" title="Red-figure pottery">red-figured</a> bell-krater, c. 330 BC</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Greek_mythology" title="Greek mythology">Greek mythology</a>, <b>Orestes</b> or <b>Orestis</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="/ɒ/: 'o' in 'body'">ɒ</span><span title="/ˈ/: primary stress follows">ˈ</span><span title="'r' in 'rye'">r</span><span title="/ɛ/: 'e' in 'dress'">ɛ</span><span title="'s' in 'sigh'">s</span><span title="'t' in 'tie'">t</span><span title="/iː/: 'ee' in 'fleece'">iː</span><span title="'z' in 'zoom'">z</span></span>/</a></span></span>; <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">Ὀρέστης</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="grc-Latn-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Greek" title="Help:IPA/Greek">[oréstɛːs]</a></span>) was the son of <a href="/wiki/Agamemnon" title="Agamemnon">Agamemnon</a> and <a href="/wiki/Clytemnestra" title="Clytemnestra">Clytemnestra</a>, and the brother of <a href="/wiki/Electra" title="Electra">Electra</a>. He is the subject of several <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek theatre">Ancient Greek plays</a> and of various <a href="/wiki/Myth" title="Myth">myths</a> connected with his madness, revenge, and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older works.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In particular Orestes plays a main role in <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a>' <i><a href="/wiki/Oresteia" title="Oresteia">Oresteia</a>.</i> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orestes_and_Iphigenia_mosaic_-_Palazzo_dei_Conservatori_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Orestes_and_Iphigenia_mosaic_-_Palazzo_dei_Conservatori_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016.jpg/250px-Orestes_and_Iphigenia_mosaic_-_Palazzo_dei_Conservatori_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="224" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Orestes_and_Iphigenia_mosaic_-_Palazzo_dei_Conservatori_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016.jpg/330px-Orestes_and_Iphigenia_mosaic_-_Palazzo_dei_Conservatori_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/34/Orestes_and_Iphigenia_mosaic_-_Palazzo_dei_Conservatori_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016.jpg/500px-Orestes_and_Iphigenia_mosaic_-_Palazzo_dei_Conservatori_-_Musei_Capitolini_-_Rome_2016.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3245" data-file-height="3310" /></a><figcaption>Orestes and <a href="/wiki/Iphigeneia" class="mw-redirect" title="Iphigeneia">Iphigeneia</a> on an antique mosaic, <a href="/wiki/Musei_Capitolini" class="mw-redirect" title="Musei Capitolini">Musei Capitolini</a></figcaption></figure> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology">Etymology</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The Greek name Ὀρέστης, having become "Orestēs" in Latin and its descendants, is derived from Greek ὄρος (óros, "mountain") and ἵστημι (hístēmi, "to stand"), and so can be thought to have the meaning "stands on a mountain".<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Greek_literature">Greek literature</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Greek literature"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Homer">Homer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Homer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/Homer" title="Homer">Homeric</a> telling of the story,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Orestes is a member of the <a href="/wiki/Atreus#The_House_of_Atreus" title="Atreus">doomed house of Atreus</a>, which is descended from <a href="/wiki/Tantalus" title="Tantalus">Tantalus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Niobe" title="Niobe">Niobe</a>. He is absent from <a href="/wiki/Mycenae" title="Mycenae">Mycenae</a> when his father, <a href="/wiki/Agamemnon" title="Agamemnon">Agamemnon</a>, returns from the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a> with the Trojan princess <a href="/wiki/Cassandra" title="Cassandra">Cassandra</a> as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by <a href="/wiki/Aegisthus" title="Aegisthus">Aegisthus</a>, the lover of his wife, <a href="/wiki/Clytemnestra" title="Clytemnestra">Clytemnestra</a>. Seven years later, Orestes returns from <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a> and avenges his father's death by slaying both Aegisthus and his own mother Clytemnestra.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the <i><a href="/wiki/Odyssey" title="Odyssey">Odyssey</a></i>, Orestes is held up as a favorable example to <a href="/wiki/Telemachus" title="Telemachus">Telemachus</a>, whose mother <a href="/wiki/Penelope" title="Penelope">Penelope</a> is plagued by <a href="/wiki/Suitors_of_Penelope" title="Suitors of Penelope">suitors</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orestes_Elektra_Pylades_Louvre_K428.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Orestes_Elektra_Pylades_Louvre_K428.jpg/220px-Orestes_Elektra_Pylades_Louvre_K428.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Orestes_Elektra_Pylades_Louvre_K428.jpg/330px-Orestes_Elektra_Pylades_Louvre_K428.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Orestes_Elektra_Pylades_Louvre_K428.jpg/440px-Orestes_Elektra_Pylades_Louvre_K428.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2072" data-file-height="1864" /></a><figcaption>Orestes, Elektra, and Pylades at the tomb of Agamemnon - Campanian <a href="/wiki/Red-figure_pottery" title="Red-figure pottery">red-figure</a> <a href="/wiki/Hydria" title="Hydria">hydria</a>, c. 330 BC</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pindar">Pindar</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Pindar"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Pindar" title="Pindar">Pindar</a>'s version, the young Orestes was saved by his nurse <a href="/wiki/Arsinoe_(Greek_mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arsinoe (Greek mythology)">Arsinoe</a> (<a href="/wiki/Laodamia" title="Laodamia">Laodamia</a>) or his sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him. In the familiar theme of the hero's early eclipse and exile, he escaped to <a href="/wiki/Raveni" title="Raveni">Phanote</a> on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Parnassus" title="Mount Parnassus">Mount Parnassus</a>, where King <a href="/wiki/Strophius" title="Strophius">Strophius</a> took charge of him.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his twentieth year, he was urged by Electra to return home and avenge his father's death. He returned home, along with his first cousin <a href="/wiki/Pylades" title="Pylades">Pylades</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Anaxibia" title="Anaxibia">Anaxibia</a> (sister to Agamemnon) and Strophius. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Greek_drama">Greek drama</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Greek drama"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies_by_William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1862)_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies_by_William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281862%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies_by_William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281862%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies_by_William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281862%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies_by_William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281862%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/81/Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies_by_William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281862%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies_by_William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_%281862%29_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7884" data-file-height="6547" /></a><figcaption><i><a href="/wiki/Orestes_Pursued_by_the_Furies" title="Orestes Pursued by the Furies">Orestes Pursued by the Furies</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/William-Adolphe_Bouguereau" title="William-Adolphe Bouguereau">William-Adolphe Bouguereau</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The story of Orestes was the subject of the <i><a href="/wiki/Oresteia" title="Oresteia">Oresteia</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a> (<i>Agamemnon</i>, <i>Choephori</i>, <i>Eumenides</i>), of the <i><a href="/wiki/Electra_(Sophocles)" class="mw-redirect" title="Electra (Sophocles)">Electra</a></i> of <a href="/wiki/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles</a>, and of the <i><a href="/wiki/Electra_(Euripides)" class="mw-redirect" title="Electra (Euripides)">Electra</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iphigeneia_in_Tauris" class="mw-redirect" title="Iphigeneia in Tauris">Iphigeneia in Tauris</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Iphigenia_at_Aulis" class="mw-redirect" title="Iphigenia at Aulis">Iphigenia at Aulis</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Orestes_(play)" title="Orestes (play)">Orestes</a></i>, all of <a href="/wiki/Euripides" title="Euripides">Euripides</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He also appears in Euripides’ <a href="/wiki/Andromache_(play)" title="Andromache (play)"><i>Andromache</i></a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Aeschylus"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In Aeschylus's <i><a href="/wiki/Oresteia#The_Eumenides" title="Oresteia">Eumenides</a></i>, Orestes goes mad after killing his mother and is pursued by the <a href="/wiki/Erinyes" title="Erinyes">Erinyes (Furies)</a>, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety. He takes refuge in the temple at <a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a>; but, even though <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> had ordered him to kill his mother, the god is powerless to protect Orestes from the consequences. At last <a href="/wiki/Athena" title="Athena">Athena</a> receives him on the <a href="/wiki/Acropolis_of_Athens" title="Acropolis of Athens">Acropolis of Athens</a> and arranges a formal trial of the case before twelve judges, including herself. The Erinyes demand their victim; Orestes asserts that it was indeed he who killed his mother,<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though he was acting on the orders of Apollo. At the close of the trial, Athena votes on the verdict last, announcing that she is for acquittal; the votes are counted and the result is a tie, forcing an acquittal in accordance with the rules previously stipulated by Athena. The Erinyes, who insisted on Orestes' responsibility in the murder, are converted into the Eumenides, who now offer him wisdom and counsel.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are then propitiated by the establishment of a new ritual, in which they are worshipped as "Semnai Theai", "Venerable Goddesses", and Orestes dedicates an altar to <i>Athena Areia</i>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orestes_Iphigeneia_Pylades_BM_GR1960.2-1.1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Orestes_Iphigeneia_Pylades_BM_GR1960.2-1.1.jpg/220px-Orestes_Iphigeneia_Pylades_BM_GR1960.2-1.1.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="200" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Orestes_Iphigeneia_Pylades_BM_GR1960.2-1.1.jpg/330px-Orestes_Iphigeneia_Pylades_BM_GR1960.2-1.1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Orestes_Iphigeneia_Pylades_BM_GR1960.2-1.1.jpg/440px-Orestes_Iphigeneia_Pylades_BM_GR1960.2-1.1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2400" data-file-height="2180" /></a><figcaption>Orestes, <a href="/wiki/Iphigeneia" class="mw-redirect" title="Iphigeneia">Iphigeneia</a>, and Pylades on a repoussé silver cup, Roman, first century (<a href="/wiki/British_Museum" title="British Museum">British Museum</a>)</figcaption></figure> <div style="clear:left;" class=""></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Euripides">Euripides</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Euripides"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Iphigenia_in_Tauris" title="Iphigenia in Tauris">Iphigenia in Tauris</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Orestes_(play)" title="Orestes (play)">Orestes (play)</a></div> <p>As Aeschylus tells it, Orestes' punishment for matricide ended after a trial, but according to Euripides, in order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes, Orestes was ordered by Apollo to go to <a href="/wiki/History_of_Crimea#Tauri_and_Scythians" title="History of Crimea">Tauris</a>, carry off the statue of <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> that had fallen from the heavens, and bring it to Athens. Orestes traveled to Tauris with <a href="/wiki/Pylades" title="Pylades">Pylades</a>, where the pair were at once imprisoned by the people, among whom the custom was to sacrifice all Greek strangers in honor of Artemis. The priestess of Artemis, whose duty it was to perform the sacrifice, was Orestes' sister <a href="/wiki/Iphigenia" title="Iphigenia">Iphigenia</a>. She offered to release him if he would carry home a letter from her to Greece; he refused to go, but he implored Pylades to deliver the letter while he stayed to be slain. After a conflict of mutual affection, Pylades at last yielded, but the brother and sister finally recognized each other due to the letter, and all three escaped together, carrying with them the image of Artemis.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Other_literature_and_media">Other literature and media</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Other literature and media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/The_Oresteia_in_the_arts_and_popular_culture" title="The Oresteia in the arts and popular culture">The Oresteia in the arts and popular culture</a></div> <p>After his return to Greece, Orestes took possession of his father's kingdom of Mycenae (killing his half-brother <a href="/wiki/Alete" class="mw-redirect" title="Alete">Alete</a>, who was the son of Clytemestra and Aegisthus), to which were added <a href="/wiki/Argos,_Peloponnese" title="Argos, Peloponnese">Argos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laconia" title="Laconia">Laconia</a>. Orestes was said to have died of a <a href="/wiki/Serpent_(symbolism)" class="mw-redirect" title="Serpent (symbolism)">snakebite</a> in <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(ancient_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcadia (ancient region)">Arcadia</a>. His body was conveyed to Sparta for burial (where he was the object of a <a href="/wiki/Cult" title="Cult">cult</a>) or, according to a Roman legend, to Aricia, when it was removed to Rome (<a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Servius</a> on <a href="/wiki/Aeneid" title="Aeneid">Aeneid</a>, ii. 116).<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Electra_and_Orestes_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_14994.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Electra_and_Orestes_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_14994.png/220px-Electra_and_Orestes_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_14994.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Electra_and_Orestes_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_14994.png/330px-Electra_and_Orestes_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_14994.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Electra_and_Orestes_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_14994.png/440px-Electra_and_Orestes_-_Project_Gutenberg_eText_14994.png 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="327" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Electra" title="Electra">Electra</a> and Orestes, from Alfred Church, <i>Stories from the Greek Tragedians</i>, 1897</figcaption></figure> <p>Before the <a href="/wiki/Trojan_War" title="Trojan War">Trojan War</a>, Orestes was to marry his first cousin <a href="/wiki/Hermione_(mythology)" title="Hermione (mythology)">Hermione</a>, daughter of <a href="/wiki/Menelaus" title="Menelaus">Menelaus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Helen_of_Troy" title="Helen of Troy">Helen</a>. Things soon changed after Orestes committed <a href="/wiki/Matricide" title="Matricide">matricide</a>: Menelaus then gave his daughter to <a href="/wiki/Neoptolemus" title="Neoptolemus">Neoptolemus</a>, son of <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a> and <a href="/wiki/Deidamia_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Deidamia (mythology)">Deidamia</a>. According to Euripides' play Andromache, Orestes slew Neoptolemus just outside a temple and took off with Hermione. He seized Argos and <a href="/wiki/Arcadia_(ancient_region)" class="mw-redirect" title="Arcadia (ancient region)">Arcadia</a> after their thrones had become vacant, becoming ruler of all the <a href="/wiki/Peloponnesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Peloponnesus">Peloponnesus</a>. His son by Hermione, <a href="/wiki/Tisamenus_(son_of_Orestes)" title="Tisamenus (son of Orestes)">Tisamenus</a>, became ruler after him but was eventually killed by the <a href="/wiki/Heracleidae" title="Heracleidae">Heracleidae</a>. </p><p>There is extant a <a href="/wiki/Latin" title="Latin">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/Epic_poetry" title="Epic poetry">epic poem</a>, consisting of about 1000 <a href="/wiki/Hexameter" title="Hexameter">hexameters</a>, called <i>Orestes Tragoedia</i>, which has been ascribed to <a href="/wiki/Dracontius" title="Dracontius">Dracontius</a> of Carthage.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Murder_Aegisthus_Louvre_K320.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Murder_Aegisthus_Louvre_K320.jpg/250px-Murder_Aegisthus_Louvre_K320.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="259" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Murder_Aegisthus_Louvre_K320.jpg/330px-Murder_Aegisthus_Louvre_K320.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/Murder_Aegisthus_Louvre_K320.jpg/500px-Murder_Aegisthus_Louvre_K320.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="2350" /></a><figcaption>Murder of Aegisthus by Orestes and Pylades - red-figure Apulian <a href="/wiki/Oinochoe" class="mw-redirect" title="Oinochoe">oinochoe</a> (wine jug), c. 430-300 BC</figcaption></figure> <p>Orestes appears also to be a dramatic prototype for all persons whose crime is mitigated by extenuating circumstances. These legends belong to an age when higher ideas of law and of social duty were being established; the implacable blood-feud of <a href="/wiki/Urgesellschaft" title="Urgesellschaft">primitive society</a> gives place to a fair trial, and in Athens, when the votes of the judges are evenly divided, mercy prevails.<sup id="cite_ref-EB1911_7-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EB1911-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In one version of the story of <a href="/wiki/Telephus" title="Telephus">Telephus</a>, the infant Orestes was kidnapped by King Telephus, who used him as leverage in his demand that <a href="/wiki/Achilles" title="Achilles">Achilles</a> heal him. </p><p>According to some sources, Orestes fathered <a href="/wiki/Penthilus" class="mw-redirect" title="Penthilus">Penthilus</a> by his half-sister, <a href="/wiki/Erigone_(daughter_of_Aegisthus)" title="Erigone (daughter of Aegisthus)">Erigone</a>. </p><p>For modern treatments see <a href="/wiki/The_Oresteia_in_the_arts_and_popular_culture" title="The Oresteia in the arts and popular culture">the Oresteia in the arts and popular culture</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reported_remains">Reported remains</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Reported remains"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brought_to_Sparta">Brought to Sparta</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Brought to Sparta"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951" /><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/List_of_tallest_people#Disputed_and_unverified_claims" title="List of tallest people">List of tallest people § Disputed and unverified claims</a></div> <p>In <i><a href="/wiki/Histories_(Herodotus)" title="Histories (Herodotus)">The History</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Oracle_of_Delphi" class="mw-redirect" title="Oracle of Delphi">Oracle of Delphi</a> foretold that the <a href="/wiki/Sparta" title="Sparta">Spartans</a> could not defeat the <a href="/wiki/Tegea" title="Tegea">Tegeans</a> until they moved the bones of Orestes to Sparta.<sup id="cite_ref-Fragkaki2016_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fragkaki2016-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lichas_(Spartan)" title="Lichas (Spartan)">Lichas</a> discovered the body, which measured 7 <a href="/wiki/Cubits" class="mw-redirect" title="Cubits">cubits</a> long<sup id="cite_ref-Huxley1976_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Huxley1976-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (311.5 cm if 1 cubit is 44.5 cm<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). Thus Orestes would have been a <a href="/wiki/Giant_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Giant (mythology)">Giant</a>. These remains could have belonged to a huge animal from the <a href="/wiki/Pleistocene" title="Pleistocene">Pleistocene</a> epoch.<sup id="cite_ref-Fragkaki2016_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fragkaki2016-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Huge bones found in caves in nearby areas of Greece have been attributed to <a href="/wiki/Horse" title="Horse">horses</a> (<i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Equus_abeli&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Equus abeli (page does not exist)">Equus abeli</a></i>), <a href="/wiki/Mammoth" title="Mammoth">mammoths</a>, <a href="/wiki/Elephant" title="Elephant">elephants</a>, <a href="/wiki/Deer" title="Deer">deers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bovidae" title="Bovidae">bovids</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cetacea" title="Cetacea">cetaceans</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Huxley1976_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Huxley1976-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_ashes_of_Orestes_as_Pignora_Imperii">The ashes of Orestes as <i>Pignora Imperii</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: The ashes of Orestes as Pignora Imperii"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Maurus_Servius_Honoratus" class="mw-redirect" title="Maurus Servius Honoratus">Maurus Servius Honoratus</a>, an early 4th century grammarian, regards the ashes of Orestes (<i>Cineres Orestis</i>) as one of the seven <i><a href="/wiki/Pignora_imperii" title="Pignora imperii">pignora imperii</a></i> of the Roman empire in his <i>In Vergilii Aeneidem commentarii</i> (‘Commentary on Virgil’s Aeneid’). Alongside the ashes, Servius lists the other six pignora: the stone of the Mother of the Gods, the terracotta chariot of the Veientines, the <a href="/wiki/Ancile" title="Ancile">ancile</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Priam" title="Priam">sceptre of Priam</a>, the veil of Iliona, and the <a href="/wiki/Palladium_(classical_antiquity)" title="Palladium (classical antiquity)">palladium</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ashes were kept at the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Jupiter_Optimus_Maximus" title="Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus">Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Capitolium" title="Capitolium">Capitolium</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Orestes_and_Pylades">Orestes and Pylades</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Orestes and Pylades"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pompeia._Orestes_and_Pylades.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Pompeia._Orestes_and_Pylades.jpeg/220px-Pompeia._Orestes_and_Pylades.jpeg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Pompeia._Orestes_and_Pylades.jpeg/330px-Pompeia._Orestes_and_Pylades.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Pompeia._Orestes_and_Pylades.jpeg/440px-Pompeia._Orestes_and_Pylades.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="900" /></a><figcaption>An antique fresco in <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a> depicting a scene from 'Iphigenia in Tauris' showing Orestes, <a href="/wiki/Pylades" title="Pylades">Pylades</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thoas_(king_of_the_Taurians)" title="Thoas (king of the Taurians)">King Thoas</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Orestes_and_Pylades.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Orestes_and_Pylades.JPG/220px-Orestes_and_Pylades.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Orestes_and_Pylades.JPG/330px-Orestes_and_Pylades.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Orestes_and_Pylades.JPG/440px-Orestes_and_Pylades.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2740" data-file-height="2741" /></a><figcaption>Orestes and Pylades, attributed to <a href="/wiki/Pasiteles" title="Pasiteles">Pasiteles</a> school</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benjamin_West_-_Pylades_and_Orestes_Brought_as_Victims_before_Iphigenia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Benjamin_West_-_Pylades_and_Orestes_Brought_as_Victims_before_Iphigenia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/220px-Benjamin_West_-_Pylades_and_Orestes_Brought_as_Victims_before_Iphigenia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="171" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Benjamin_West_-_Pylades_and_Orestes_Brought_as_Victims_before_Iphigenia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/330px-Benjamin_West_-_Pylades_and_Orestes_Brought_as_Victims_before_Iphigenia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/71/Benjamin_West_-_Pylades_and_Orestes_Brought_as_Victims_before_Iphigenia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg/440px-Benjamin_West_-_Pylades_and_Orestes_Brought_as_Victims_before_Iphigenia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3464" data-file-height="2699" /></a><figcaption><i>Pylades and Orestes Brought as Victims before <a href="/wiki/Iphigenia" title="Iphigenia">Iphigenia</a></i>, by <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_West" title="Benjamin West">Benjamin West</a>, 1766</figcaption></figure> <p>The relationship between Orestes and <a href="/wiki/Pylades" title="Pylades">Pylades</a> has been presented by some authors of the Roman era (not by classic Greek tragedians) as romantic or <a href="/wiki/Homoeroticism" title="Homoeroticism">homoerotic</a>. A dialogue entitled <i><a href="/wiki/Amores_(Lucian)" title="Amores (Lucian)">Erotes</a></i> ("Affairs of the Heart") and attributed to <a href="/wiki/Lucian" title="Lucian">Lucian</a> compares the merits and advantages of heterosexuality and homoeroticism, and Orestes and Pylades are presented as the principal representatives of homoerotic friendship: </p> <blockquote><p>Taking the love god as the mediator of their emotions for each other, they sailed together as it were on the same vessel of life...nor did they restrict their affectionate friendship to the limits of Hellas....as soon as they set foot on the land of the Tauride, the Fury of matricides was there to welcome the strangers, and, when the natives stood around them, the one was struck to the ground by his usual madness and lay there, but Pylades "did wipe away the foam and tend his frame and shelter him with a fine well-woven robe," thus showing the feelings not merely of a lover, but also of a father. But when it had been decided that, while one remained to be killed, the other should depart for Mycenae to bear a letter, each wished to remain for the sake of the other, considering that he himself lived in the survival of his friend. But Orestes refused to take the letter, claiming Pylades was the fitter person to do so, and thus showed himself almost to be the lover rather than the beloved. </p><dl><dd><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Orestie_d%27Eschyle" title="L'Orestie d'Eschyle">L'Orestie d'Eschyle</a></i> (47)</dd></dl></blockquote> <p>In 1734, <a href="/wiki/George_Frederic_Handel" class="mw-redirect" title="George Frederic Handel">George Frederic Handel</a>'s opera <i><a href="/wiki/Oreste" title="Oreste">Oreste</a></i> (based on Giangualberto Barlocci's Roman libretto of 1723), was premiered in London's <a href="/wiki/Covent_Garden" title="Covent Garden">Covent Garden</a>. </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/L%27Orestie_d%27Eschyle" title="L'Orestie d'Eschyle">L'Orestie d'Eschyle</a></i> (1913–1923) is a French-language opera in three parts by <a href="/wiki/Darius_Milhaud" title="Darius Milhaud">Darius Milhaud</a> based on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Oresteia" class="mw-redirect" title="The Oresteia">The Oresteia</a></i> triptych by <a href="/wiki/Aeschylus" title="Aeschylus">Aeschylus</a> in a French translation by his collaborator <a href="/wiki/Paul_Claudel" title="Paul Claudel">Paul Claudel</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sanctuary_of_Maniae">Sanctuary of Maniae</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Sanctuary of Maniae"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Pausanias_(geographer)" title="Pausanias (geographer)">Pausanias</a> writes that at the road from <a href="/wiki/Megalopolis,_Greece" title="Megalopolis, Greece">Megalopolis</a> to <a href="/wiki/Messene" title="Messene">Messene</a> there was a sanctuary of goddesses <a href="/wiki/Maniae" title="Maniae">Maniae</a> (meaning madness). Citizens said that it was there that madness overtook Orestes.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Graves, Robert, <i>The Greek Myths</i> 112.1 ff.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFMiola2017" class="citation journal cs1">Miola, Robert S. 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Der Orest-Mythos in der Antike und der Moderne.</i> Berlin: Matthes & Seitz, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222" /><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-88221-087-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-88221-087-3">978-3-88221-087-3</a>.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Orestes&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Commons-logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/20px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="16" class="mw-file-element" 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en Aulide</a></i> (1774, Gluck)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Iphig%C3%A9nie" title="Iphigénie">Iphigénie</a></i> (1674)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Film</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Iphigenia_(film)" title="Iphigenia (film)">Iphigenia</a></i> (1977)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Novel</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Songs_of_the_Kings" title="The Songs of the Kings">The Songs of the Kings</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th 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Tauris">Iphigenia in Tauris</a></i></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Operas</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Iphig%C3%A9nie_en_Tauride_(Desmarets_and_Campra)" title="Iphigénie en Tauride (Desmarets and Campra)">Iphigénie en Tauride</a></i> (1699, Desmarets and Campra)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ifigenia_in_Tauride_(Vinci)" title="Ifigenia in Tauride (Vinci)">Ifigenia in Tauride</a></i> (1724, Vinci)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ifigenia_in_Tauride_(Traetta)" title="Ifigenia in Tauride (Traetta)">Ifigenia in Tauride</a></i> (1763, Traetta)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ifigenia_in_Tauride_(Jommelli)" title="Ifigenia in Tauride (Jommelli)">Ifigenia in Tauride</a></i> (1771, Jommelli)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Iphig%C3%A9nie_en_Tauride" title="Iphigénie en Tauride">Iphigénie en Tauride</a></i> (1779, Gluck) <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Iphig%C3%A9nie_en_Tauride_discography" title="Iphigénie en Tauride discography">discography</a></li></ul></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Iphig%C3%A9nie_en_Tauride_(Piccinni)" title="Iphigénie en Tauride (Piccinni)">Iphigénie en Tauride</a></i> (1781, Piccinni)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Iphigenia_in_Tauris_(Goethe)" title="Iphigenia in Tauris (Goethe)">Iphigenia in Tauris</a></i> (1779)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374" /><link 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Oresteia" title="Oresteia">Oresteia</a></i> (458 BC, Aeschylus)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Electra_(Euripides_play)" title="Electra (Euripides play)">Electra</a></i> (c. 413 BC, Euripides)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Orestes_(play)" title="Orestes (play)">Orestes</a></i> (c. 408 BC, Euripides)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Electra_(Sophocles_play)" title="Electra (Sophocles play)">Electra</a></i> (c. 405 BC, Sophocles)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Electra_(Giraudoux_play)" title="Electra (Giraudoux play)">Electra</a></i> (1937, Giraudoux)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Flies" title="The Flies">The Flies</a></i> (1943, Sartre)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Electra_(Rajiva_Wijesinha)" class="mw-redirect" title="Electra (Rajiva Wijesinha)">Elektra</a></i> (1971, Wijesinha)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mourning_Becomes_Electra" title="Mourning Becomes 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