figures, the most famous being Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Other figures named Orestes include: Orestes, one of the leaders of the satyrs...
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In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (/ɒˈrɛstiːz/; Greek: Ὀρέστης [oréstɛːs]) was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra....
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Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, in Greek mythology. Orestes or Orestis may also refer to: Orestes (Greek myth), other figures in Greek...
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Orestes (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστης, Orestēs) (408 BCE) is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his...
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Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...
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Iphigenia (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
identity, that Orestes is alive. Iphigenia then offers to release Orestes if he will carry home a letter from her to Greece. Orestes refuses to go, and...
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In Greek mythology, Europa (/jʊəˈroʊpə, jə-/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη Eurṓpē, Attic Greek pronunciation: [eu̯.rɔ̌ː.pɛː]) or Europe is the name of the following...
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Erinyes (redirect from Greek furies)
prominently in the myth of Orestes, which recurs frequently throughout many works of ancient Greek literature. Featured in ancient Greek literature, from...
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In addition to these floods, Greek mythology also says the world was periodically destroyed by fire, such as in the myth of Phaëton. Plato makes reference...
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Clytemnestra (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
by Orestes, her son by Agamemnon. The infant Helen was also killed. Aletes and Erigone grow up at Mycenae, but when Aletes comes of age, Orestes returns...
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Oresteia (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification...
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Agamemnon (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
remaining children, Electra, Orestes, and Chrysothemis. After growing to adulthood and being pressured by Electra, Orestes vows to avenge his father Agamemnon...
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Orestes Pursued by the Furies is an event from Greek mythology that is a recurring theme in art depicting Orestes. In the Iliad, the king of Argos, Agamemnon...
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Tantalus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Robert Graves. The Greek Myths, section 108 (1960) Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 5; Tzetzes on Lycophron, 52 Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 11 Apostol. Cent...
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Electra (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
at the same time as her brother, Orestes. (Odyssey, iii. 306; X. 542). According to Pindar (Pythia, xi. 25), Orestes was saved either by his old nurse...
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through a telling of the myth in the form of a poem by Greek poet Homer, titled The Iliad, Electra Iphigenia Nausicaa Neoptolemus Orestes Telemachus Hyllus Bronze...
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the ways of Greek life and the responsibilities of adulthood. The rite of passage undergone by Greek youths in the tribal prehistory of Greece evolved into...
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Pelops (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
Lycophron, 52; Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 4 & 11 Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 11 Scholia ad Euripides, Orestes 11 from Pherecydes, fr. 93 Scholion...
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Electra (Euripides play) (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
describes Orestes’ successful murder of Aegisthus. Orestes and Pylades return bearing Aegisthus’ body. As Clytemnestra approaches, Orestes begins to waver...
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In Greek mythology, Argeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀργεύς means "the hunter") or Argius (Ἀργεῖος Argeius or Argeios) or may refer to the following personages:...
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In Greek mythology, Arsinoe, sometimes spelled Arsinoë, (Ancient Greek: Ἀρσινόη), was the name of the following individuals. Arsinoe, one of the Nysiads...
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"Rome and Greece: Lesbianism" Christine Downing, Myths and mysteries of same sex love Andrew Callimach, Lovers' Legends: The Gay Greek Myths Conner, Sparks...
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Greek tragedy (Ancient Greek: τραγῳδία, romanized: tragōidía) is one of the three principal theatrical genres from Ancient Greece and Greek inhabited...
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Hermes (redirect from Hermes (Greek religion and mythology))
marks, boxes, or other symbols. Hermes (/ˈhɜːrmiːz/; Greek: Ἑρμῆς) is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek religion and mythology considered the herald of the...
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Helen of Troy (redirect from Helen of Greece (demigod))
to another version, used by Euripides in his play Orestes, Helen had been saved by Apollo from Orestes and was taken up to Mount Olympus almost immediately...
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Tisamenus (Ancient Greek: Τισαμενός), in Greek mythology, was a son of Orestes and Hermione, daughter of Menelaus, or Erigone, daughter of Aegisthus who...
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Poseidon (redirect from Greek god of earthquakes)
symbols. Poseidon (/pəˈsaɪdən, pɒ-, poʊ-/; Greek: Ποσειδῶν) is one of the Twelve Olympians in ancient Greek religion and mythology, presiding over the...
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Neoptolemus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
wish to go back on his word, and took Hermione from Orestes and gave her to Neoptolemus. Orestes, thus insulted, slew Neoptolemus as he was sacrificing...
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Athena (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
him to Zeus for his deification. In Aeschylus's tragedy Orestes, Athena intervenes to save Orestes from the wrath of the Erinyes and presides over his trial...
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Aeschylus (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
prediction of the return of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, who will seek to avenge his father. The Libation Bearers opens with Orestes' arrival at Agamemnon's...
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