where King Strophius took charge of him.

In his twentieth year, he was urged by Electra to return home and avenge his father's death. He returned home, along with his first cousin Pylades, son of Anaxibia (sister to Agamemnon) and Strophius.

Greek drama

The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides),

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