Character · Individual

Orestes

Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name: Orestes
Disambiguator: None
Kind: Character
Scope: Individual
Editorial note: No editorial note published.

Aliases

No aliases recorded.

Location presence

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No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

·Remembered

Orestes is Agamemnon’s son and killed Aegisthus.

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“who had been killed by Agamemnon’s son Orestes”

·Reported

Orestes was foretold to avenge Agamemnon when he grew up and wished to return home.

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“Orestes would be sure to take his revenge when he grew up and wanted to return home”

·Remembered

People praise Orestes for killing Aegisthus, his father’s murderer.

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“people are singing Orestes’ praises for having killed his father’s murderer Aegisthus”

·Reported

Orestes kills false Aegisthus and avenges the murder of his noble father.

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“Orestes did, who killed false Aegisthus the murderer of his noble father”

·Reported

Telemachus says the Achaeans applaud Orestes, whose name will endure because he nobly avenged his father.

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“the Achaeans applaud Orestes and his name will live through all time for he has avenged his father nobly”

·Remembered

Orestes returns from Athens as Aegisthus’s bane, kills his father’s murderer, and celebrates funeral rites with a public banquet.

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“Orestes came back from Athens to be his bane, and killed the murderer of his father. Then he celebrated the funeral rites of his mother and of false Aegisthus by a banquet to the people of Argos”

·Reported

Proteus allows that Orestes may already have killed Aegisthus.

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“Orestes has been beforehand with you in killing him”

·Reported

Agamemnon asks whether Orestes lives in Orchomenus, Pylos, or Sparta with Menelaus.

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“can you give me any news of my son Orestes? Is he in Orchomenus, or at Pylos, or is he at Sparta with Menelaus—for I presume that he is still living”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

·Remembered

“Agamemnon’s son Orestes”

·Reported

“Orestes did, who killed false Aegisthus”

·Reported

“even though Orestes has been beforehand with you in killing him”

·Reported

“my son Orestes”