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2. Oresteia - Wikipedia

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   Contents. Oresteia. The Oresteia (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder 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 of the Furies (also ...

3. Orestes (play) - Wikipedia

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   Orestes asks the slave why he should spare his life, and the slave supplicates himself before Orestes. Orestes is won over by the Phrygian’s argument that, like free men, slaves prefer the light of day to death. Menelaus then enters leading to a standoff between him and Orestes, Electra, and Pylades, who have successfully captured Hermione.

4. Orestes - Wikipedia

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   In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (/ ɒ ˈ r ɛ s t iː z /; Greek: Ὀρέστης [oréstɛːs]) was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness, revenge, and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older works.

5. Oresteia (Xenakis) - Wikipedia

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   Oresteia (Xenakis) Oresteia. (Xenakis) Oresteia is a Greek opera by Iannis Xenakis originally composed in 1965 and 1966. The work is based on the Oresteia by Aeschylus. It is written for a chorus and twelve instrumentalists, and runs approximately 50 minutes. [1][2][3][4] Xenakis composed two further movements of the work in the 1980s and 1992.

6. Electra (Sophocles play) - Wikipedia

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   The play begins years later when Orestes has returned as a grown man with a plot for revenge, as well as to claim the throne. Orestes arrives with his friend Pylades, son of Strophius, and a pedagogue, i.e. tutor (an old attendant of Orestes, who took him from Electra to Strophius). They plan to have the tutor announce that Orestes has died in ...

7. Electra - Wikipedia

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   According to Aeschylus, Orestes recognized Electra's face before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge. [4] Orestes and his friend Pylades, son of King Strophius of Phocis and Anaxibia, killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus (in some accounts with Electra ...

8. Orestes Pursued by the Furies - Wikipedia

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   Orestes Pursued by the Furiesis an event from Greek mythologythat is a recurring theme in art depicting Orestes. Background. [edit] In the Iliad, the king of Argos, Agamemnon, sacrifices his daughter Iphigeniato Artemisto assure good sailing weather to travel to Troyand fight in the Trojan War. In Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus's ...

9. The Flies - Wikipedia

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   Orestes meets his sister, Electra, and sees the terrible state that both she and the city are in. Electra has been treated as a servant girl since her mother and Aegisthus killed her father. She longs to exact her revenge and refuses to mourn for the sins and death of Agamemnon or of the townspeople.