Trial of Orestes at the Areopagus
event · 2 works · 2 mentions · 6 anchored passages
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.
You also must run your risk here, for murder.
I shall stand trial as a matricide, though I was pure before.
But I shall leave my father’s house, and at a stranger’s tribunal undergo trial for my mother’s murder.
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;
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.
For there is a holy tribunal there, which Zeus once established for Ares, when his hands were stained with blood-pollution.