Trial of Orestes at the Areopagus
event · 3 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Orestes' trial · my ordeal of blood · stand trial with the goddesses · the homicide trial · the trial · trial at a stranger's tribunal · trial for matricide
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2 expressionsOrestes' trial at the Areopagus1 mention
Iphigenia in Tauris (Greek)
For I saved you before also, Orestes, on Ares’ hill when the votes were equal;
The trial of Orestes at the Areopagus1 mention
Eumenides (Greek)
It is my duty to give the final judgment and I shall cast my vote for Orestes.
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Eumenides
The formal homicide trial before Athena and the newly empaneled Areopagus jury, resulting in Orestes' acquittal by an equal vote.
It is my duty to give the final judgment and I shall cast my vote for Orestes.
Hear now my ordinance, people of Attica, as you judge the first trial for bloodshed.
The judges rise from their seats and cast their ballots one by one during the following altercation.
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.