Orestes

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Greek The only son of Agamemnonand Clytemnestra; brother of Electra, Iphigenia,and Chrysothemis. Orestes killed his mother, whohad killed her husband, Agamemnon. According tosome accounts, the Furies drove Orestes mad for theunforgivable crime of matricide. He took refuge inAthens. He was tried and acquitted at the court ofAreopagus, a tribunal of Athenian judges. He thentook possession of his dead father's kingdom andmarried Hermione, the daughter of Menelaus andHelen.Matricide had always been regarded as a terriblecrime, but in this myth, a court finds the son, Orestes,innocent. Zeus, Apollo, and Athene had championedhis cause in this trial. Orestes absolution represents thefinal triumph of patriarchy over the old pre-Hellenicreligions and customs.