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.
I killed him, and I sacrificed my mother, an unholy crime, no doubt, but done to avenge my father.
for though you consented to it, yet I was the one that spilled our mother’s blood.
It is now the sixth day since the body of his murdered mother was committed to the cleansing fire;
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.
When my mother’s evil deeds, that I cannot speak of, came into my hands, I was driven to flight by the Furies’ pursuit;
They killed their mother together with their swords.
But how did you dare that dreadful deed with our mother?