Trial of Orestes at the Areopagus
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my ordeal of blood · stand trial with the goddesses · the trial · trial at a stranger's tribunal · trial for matricide
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1 expressionOrestes' trial at the Areopagus1 mention
Iphigenia in Tauris (Greek)
For I saved you before also, Orestes, on Ares’ hill when the votes were equal;
in the texts
Electra
The future trial of Orestes for matricide at the Areopagus in Athens, decreed and explained by the Dioskouroi.
But I shall leave my father’s house, and at a stranger’s tribunal undergo trial for my mother’s murder.
And this law will be set for posterity, that the accused will always win his case if he has equal votes.
I shall stand trial as a matricide, though I was pure before.
Iphigenia in Tauris
The trial of Orestes for matricide at the Athenian tribunal on the hill of Ares, where he was acquitted by Pallas Athena's tie-breaking vote.
For I saved you before also, Orestes, on Ares’ hill when the votes were equal;
For there is a holy tribunal there, which Zeus once established for Ares, when his hands were stained with blood-pollution.
When I came to the hill of Ares to stand my trial, I took one seat, and the eldest of the Furies took the other.