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    The Anonymous Years (Enters Orestes into the main living area) The Chorus Orestes, we have brought news from Argos. Your mother has betrayed your father and his kingdom. Your father has endured a gruesome death. The Kingdom of Argos is now laying at rest alongside your father. We no longer have a reason to thrive. Unless, the justice that your mother deserves is carried out upon her and her lover, Aegisthus. Orestes The news from Argos, but how could this be? My mother has murdered my father.…

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    Although Orestes was the main killer of Clytemnestra in Sophocles play Electra, he was not the main focus of the play His sister, Electra but what are the reasons that made her stand out? Electra is a complex character. Electra could be called insane by many but she was cunning and held strong ideals. Sophocles brought Electra to the fore because of her ability as a character to manipulate people and bending to her will as she was able to inspire to Orestes to carry out her revenge against their…

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    and fulfillment of vengeance, their justification through the divine, and their means of punishment. In The Oresteia, Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, was exiled from the House of Atreus by his mother, Clytemnestra, the Queen of Argos. Upon the return of Agamemnon from the Trojan War, Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, murdered Agamemnon due to his sacrifice of Iphigenia,…

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    My client Orestes, son of the late king Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, is on trial for the murder of his mother. Athenians of the jury, you have heard testimony today that has painted my client as a ruthless murderer who has sunk so low as to have killed his own family. I implore to look past the duplicitous rhetoric of the prosecution and understand that this is not an issue of murder, but rather justice. Orestes may have very well killed his mother, but we must stop and think about why a son, who…

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    women, and more importantly her automatic vote for Orestes. The vote in favor of Orestes shows how little she cares about mothers because Orestes admittedly murdered his own mother and Athena still is voting in favor of him. This shows her authority in the trial because regardless of what Orestes did, and what the Furies could potentially do to Athena and her city, Athena is still confident enough in her beliefs to cast her vote in favor of Orestes because of her hatred towards women,…

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    The Libation Bearers

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    are definitely human in nature. Orestes exhibits some humanity on his quest to avenge his father’s death. Before killing his mother as Apollo has commanded he says “O Pylades, what shall I do? I cannot kill my mother.” Pylades responds “Where then will be Apollo’s prophecies? Have everyone as an enemy rather than the gods” in essence telling Orestes that if he does not comply with what the gods require they will destroy him. However, the fact that Orestes was willing to stand up to the…

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    he was killed by his wife and his cousin Aegisthus. Orestes, a young boy at the time of his father's murder was smuggled to safety by Electra, his sister and taken to stay with their father's old friend King Strophius of Phocis. Strophius raised Orestes with his son Pylades, they became close friends. Upon manhood, Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, since it was the best way to avenge his father's death said the Oracle of Apollo. Orestes was pursued by Erinyes, chthonic deities of…

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    Ancient Greek Oresteia

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    Queen Clytemnestra has murdered Agamemnon in cold blood. The second play begins many years after this event when Clytemnestra sends her daughter and some slaves into the forest. Were Electra finds her Orestes electra's brother who was exiled from there home many years ago. Orestes explained that apollo's oracle sent him to kill his mother for killing his…

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    According to Webster Dictionary, justice is defined as the quality of being just, impartial, or fair. This definition has been formed based off of many different perspectives from literature throughout history, beginning with the poets and tragedians in ancient Greece. Although they lived in similar areas and eras, writers of Greek mythology had different perspectives on the definition and enforcement of justice in their time. Readers see in The Libation Bearers that Aeschylus believes the gods…

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    Nepos make Romulus Augustulus’ dad, Orestes, the master of soldiers. Orestes eventually took over the palace of Ravenna and later, in 480 AD, Julius Nepos was assassinated. This meant that Orestes would now rule the western empire, but he decided to give it took his son, Romulus Augustulus. No one knows why he chose his son to rule instead of declaring the throne his. Some believe Orestes thought Romulus Augustulus would be more excepted then him, because Orestes had no roman blood whereas his…

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