Orestes

Kills his mother Clytaemnestra because she killed his father Agamemnon.

Genealogy

Clytaemnestra

Agamemnon

Strophius (foster-father)

Chrysothemis, Electra, Erigone, Hyperion, Iphigenia, Teledamus

Erigone, Hermione

Penthilus, Tisamenus

Places
  1. Athens
  2. Chersonese
  3. Delphi
  4. Land of the Taurians
  5. Mycenae
  6. Oresteum
  7. Phocis
  8. Rhodes
  9. Unknown
Events
  1. Orestes kills Neoptolemus
  2. Electra smuggles Orestes out of Mycenae
  3. Electra gives Orestes to Strophius to raise
  4. Strophius raises Orestes and Pylades together
  5. Orestes asks the oracle at Delphi if he should avenge Agamemnon’s murder
  6. Orestes goes to Mycenae with Pylades
  7. Orestes kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
  8. Orestes is driven insane
  9. The Eumenides pursue Orestes because he killed his mother
  10. Orestes is tried for his mother’s murder in the Areopagus
  11. Orestes receives an oracle instructing him on how to cure his madness
  12. Orestes and Pylades arrive at the land of the Taurians
  13. Orestes and Pylades are sent by Thoas to be sacrificed
  14. Orestes and Pylades are brought before Iphigenia to be sacrificed
  15. Iphigenia and Orestes recognize each other
  16. Iphigenia and Orestes escape from the Taurians
  17. Orestes brings the wooden image to Athens
  18. Orestes is driven to Rhodes by a storm
  19. Orestes dedicates the Taurian image in a fortification wall
  20. Electra and Pylades marry
  21. Orestes and Hermione marry
  22. Orestes is killed by a snake bite
  23. Menelaus finds Orestes
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 8.2
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Library, Section 8.3
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 2.16
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.14
  5. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.24
  6. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.27
  7. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.29
  8. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 9, Section 135
  9. Homer - The Iliad: Scroll 9, Section 266
  10. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 28.5
  11. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 33.8
  12. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 41.2
  13. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 16.7
  14. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 17.3
  15. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 18.5
  16. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 18.6
  17. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 29.9
  18. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 31.4
  19. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 31.8
  20. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 31.9
  21. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 1.5
  22. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 1.6
  23. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 2.1
  24. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 3.6
  25. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 3.7
  26. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 3, Section 11.10
  27. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 5, Section 4.3
  28. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 7, Section 6.2
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