Orestes Myth

В  В In Greek mythology, Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, king and queen of Mycenae. Being Aga-memnon returned from the Trojan War, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus laid a catalog to carnage him and his son. They were suc-cessful so far as Agamemnon was con-cerned, but Orestes was saved by his sister Electra, who had him carried secretly to his uncle Strophius. Being fully developed to man-hood, Orestes returned to Mycenae and avenged his father's death by homicide both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. Orestes, at the same time as he had been advised by an oracle to get his mother's life, was, in importance of the drive, pressed confused by the Furies and pursued from land to land. At length he was directed by an oracle to bring from Tauris in Scythia a statue of Artemis, believed to enclose fallen from heaven. Accompanied by Pylades, his cousin, who had been his invariable buddy, he went to Tauris. The private of this place were in the consume of sacrificing strangers, who lop in their way, to the goddess. Orestes and Pylades were detained, caper, and borne to the temple. But the priestess of the temple was Iphigenia, Orestes' sister, who had days be-fore been hassled from death on the altar by Artemis. Iphigenia saved the prisoners from death and all three returned to My-cenae. Orestes was at foothold purified of his sin by Minerva and happy from the per-secution of the Furies. Each one Sophocles and Euripides enclose hand-me-down this story for the sub-ject of tragedies.