The matricide
event · 2 works · 3 mentions · 9 anchored passages
Clytemnestra's murder · matricide · that dreadful deed with our mother · the killing of Clytemnestra · the murder of his mother · the murder of my mother · the murder of their mother
in the texts
Orestes
Orestes' killing of his mother Clytemnestra at Apollo's command in vengeance for his father.
while lord Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, notorious in Hellas;
for though you consented to it, yet I was the one that spilled our mother’s blood.
Whenever sorrow comes to you, I must be at your side and give you comforting advice;
Iphigenia in Tauris
Orestes' killing of his mother Clytemnestra to avenge Agamemnon, the originating trauma behind his persecution by the Furies and his trial at Athens.
Orestes:
Iphigenia:
Let our mother’s affairs be;