Saturday, May 23, 2009

wife of pylades


wife of pylades

Orestes and PyladesOrestes had been sent to Phocis during his mother Clytemnestra
ClytemnestraClytemnestra was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greece kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. In the Oresteia by Aeschylus, she was a femme fatale who murdered her husband, Agamemnon—said by Euripides to be her second husband—and his concubine Cassandra....'s affair with Aegisthus
AegisthusIn Greek mythology, Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes and of his daughter, Pelopia.Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenae throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus..... There he was raised with Pylades, and so considered him to be like a brother. While Orestes was away, Clytemnestra killed her husband and Orestes' father Agamemnon
AgamemnonIn Greek mythology, Agamemnon / is the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus and the husband of Clytemnestra; different mythological versions make him the king either of Mycenae or of Argos.....
Death of Aegisthus and ClytemnestraOrestes returned to Mycenae
MycenaeMycenae , is an archaeology in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north..../Argos
ArgosArgos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour, named for Nauplius .... seeking revenge, and with his friend Pylades's assistance, they slew his mother and Aegisthus. When Orestes begins to feel pity for his mother and father it is Pylades who encourages him. This story is directly from the first remaining trilogy of Greek Tragedy The Oresteia
The OresteiaThe Oresteia is a trilogy of Theatre of ancient Greece tragedy written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus.... by Aeschylus
AeschylusAeschylus was an Ancient Greece playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of the three Greek tragedy whose Play survive extant, the others being Sophocles and Euripides...., namely the second play Libation Bearers
The OresteiaThe Oresteia is a trilogy of Theatre of ancient Greece tragedy written by Aeschylus which concerns the end of the curse on the House of Atreus..... In this play, Pylades speaks only once.In alternate versions of Orestes revenge, Pylades accompanies Orestes, but says nothing. This is from two plays, Sophocles' Electra
Electra (Sophocles)Electra or Elektra is a Ancient Greece tragedy Play by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career.... and Euripides' Electra
Electra (Euripides)Euripides' Electra was probably written in the mid 410s BC, likely after 413 BC. It is unclear whether it was first produced before or after Sophocles' Electra of the Electra story..... In Sophocles' version Orestes is pretending to be dead and Pylades carries the urn supposedly holding his friend's remains.
Attempted murder of HelenPylades returned to his homeland, but was exiled by his father for taking part in the crime. He then went back to Orestes' side, where he helped him to come up with a plan to avoid getting executed. They attempted to murder Helen
HelenIn Greek mythology, Helen , better known as Helen of Sparta later Helen of Troy, was the daughter of Zeus and Leda , wife of King Menelaus of Sparta and sister of Castor and Pollux, Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra...., wife of Orestes' uncle Menelaus
MenelausMenelaus may refer to;*Menelaus, one of the two most known Atrides, a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope*Menelaus on the Moon, named after Menelaus of Alexandria...., after he proved to be of no help in protecting Orestes. However, their attempt failed through the intervention of the Gods. They then took hostage Hermione
Hermione (mythology)In Greek mythology, Hermione was the only daughter of Menelaus and Helen. She had three brothers. While her parents were away fighting , Hermione was being raised by her aunt, Clytemnestra...., daughter of Helen and Menelaus. Apollo arrived to settle the situation and gave them all instructions, including one for Pylades to marry Orestes' sister Electra
ElectraIn Greek mythology, Electra was an Argosian princess and daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and was a sibling to sisters Iphigeneia, Chrysothemis, and brother Orestes.....
TaurisPylades played a big role in another of Euripides' plays, Iphigeneia in Tauris
Iphigeneia in TaurisIphigeneia in Tauris is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written sometime between 414 BC and 412 BC. It has much in common with another of Euripides's plays, Helen , and is often described as a romance , a melodrama or an escape play..... In order to escape the persecutions of the Erinyes
ErinyesIn Greek mythology the Erinyes or Eumenides or Furies in Roman mythology were female, chthonic deities of revenge or supernatural personifications of the anger of the dead...., Orestes had been ordered by Apollo to go to Tauris, carry off the statue of Artemis
ArtemisIn Greek mythology, Artemis was the daughter of Zeus and Leto, and the twin sister of Apollo. She was the Hellenic goddess of forests and hills, child birth/virginity/fertility, the hunt and was often depicted as a huntress carrying a bow and arrows..... which had fallen from heaven, and bring it to Athens. He went to Tauris with Pylades and the pair were at once imprisoned by the people, among whom the custom was to sacrifice all strangers to Artemis. The priestess of Artemis, whose duty it was to perform the sacrifice, was Orestes' sister Iphigeneia
IphigeneiaIphigenia is a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology. In Attic accounts, Iphigenia is sometimes called a daughter of Theseus and Helen raised by Agamemnon and Clytemnestra..... She offered to release Orestes if he would carry home a letter from her to Greece; he refused to go, but bid Pylades take the letter while he himself will stay and be slain. After a conflict of mutual affection, Pylades at last yields, but the letter brought about a recognition between brother and sister, and all three escaped together, carrying with them the image of Artemis.

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