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    Orestes (play) - Wikipedia
    Written byEuripides
    ChorusArgive Maidens
    CharactersElectra · Helen · Orestes · Menelaus · Pylades · Messenger · Hermione · Phrygian Eunuch · Apollo · Tyndareus
    Original languageAncient Greek
    ANCIENT GREECE – EURIPIDES – ORESTES - Ancient Literature
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    Overview

    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 mother. See more

    Background

    In accordance with the advice of the god Apollo, Orestes has killed his mother Clytemnestra to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands. Despite Apollo's earlier prophecy, Orestes finds himself tor… See more

    Plot

    The play begins with a soliloquy that outlines the basic plot and events that have led up to this point from Electra, who stands next to a sleeping Orestes. Shortly after, Helen comes out of the palace under the pretext tha… See more

    Themes

    Aeschylus' play Eumenides, the third part of his surviving Oresteia trilogy, enshrines the trial and acquittal of Orestes within the foundation of Athens itself, as a moment when legal deliberation surpassed blood vengeance … See more

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