Orestes Flashcards
When his father was murdered by his mother and her lover…
Orestes
Who reared Orestes?
Strophius
What sister of Agamemnon was Strophius married to?
Anaxibia
What son of Strophius…
Pylades
What best friend of Orestes…
Pylades
Who was Pylades the best friend of?
Orestes
Brought to trial by Tyndareus…
Orestes
Out of hatred for Agamemnon, who urged Orestes’ banishment?
Oeax
Who tried to kill Helen but were prevented when she was transported to heaven?
Orestes and Electra
Who held Hermione hostage until Menelaus…
Orestes
Tried on the Areopagus by a jury of Athenians…
Orestes
According to Aeschylus, where did Orestes face trial for the murder of Clytemnestra?
Areopagus
What goddess cast the tie-breaking vote to acquit Orestes of Clytemnestra’s murder?
Athena
Promised that he would
regain his sanity if he stole the wooden statue of Artemis that had fallen from heaven in the land of the Taurians and brought it to Attica….
Orestes
Scarcely setting foot on Taurian
soil before they were captured and dragged to the temple to be sacrificed…
Orestes and Pylades
Who was the priestess of Artemis preparing the sacrifice of Orestes?
Iphigneia
According to Hyginus, an escape from what people was almost ended prematurely at Zminthe by the
priest Chryses….
Taurians
Hyginus says that after returning from the Taurians, Orestes would have killed what daughter of
Aegisthus and Clytemnestra if Diana had not rescued her and made her a priestess in Attica?
Erigone
Who seized Argos when its throne became vacant at the death of Cylarabes, and also conquered much of Arcadia?
Orestes
Who killed Neoptolemus?
Orestes
Who had promised his daughter to Orestes?
Menelaus
What two people was Hermione betrothed to?
Orestes and Neoptolemus
What son of Hermione and Orestes…
Tisamenus
What son of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, seized the Mycenaean throne?
Aletes
What son of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra….
Altetes
What daughter of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra….
Erigone
Who killed Aletes and would have killed his sister, Erigone, as well, if Artemis had not carried her off to Attica to be her priestess?
Orestes
What potential son of Orestes and Erigone…
Penthilus
Who was purified of matricide on a sacred stone in the Troezians’ marketplace by nine men, who used water from the nearby spring called Hippocrene?
Orestes
Who in the Arcadian city of Megalopolis was beset there by black Erinyes until, in his frenzy, he bit off one of his fingers?
Orestes
Sitting on a stone at Gythium…
Orestes
What man died at Oresthasium of a snake bite?
Orestes
Who was buried at Tegea in a place where two winds blew under strong restraint, where blow met with blow and woe was laid upon woe?
Orestes
Orestes’ bones were critical in the Spartan capture of what Arcadian city?
Tegea
