Gabriele In the Homeric story, Orestes was a member of the doomed - TopicsExpress



          

Gabriele In the Homeric story, Orestes was a member of the doomed house of Atreus. Orestes was absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnons murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, in retribution for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia to obtain favorable winds during the Greek voyage to Troy. Eight years later, Orestes returned from Athens and with his sister Electra avenged his fathers death by slaying his mother and her lover Aegisthus. .
Posted on: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 00:27:02 +0000

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