Orestes

Family: Greek · Role: son of Agamemnon · First appears: Book 1 · §67–71

Life events

• Orestes' bones were dug up and carried away to Sparta.(Book 1 · §67–71 · 📍 Tegea)
  • “he dug up the grave and gathered together the bones and went with them away to Sparta.”

Book 1 · §67–71

• parent: Agamemnon “what god they should propitiate in order to get the better of the men of Tegea in the war: and the Pythian prophetess made answer to them that they should bring into their land the bones of Orestes the son of Agamemnon.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Histories. Made with Rho MD.