Pylades · Atlas · Falsafa

in the texts

OrestesClassical · Greek

Orestes' loyal friend and cousin from Phocis who helped him kill Clytemnestra and now plans with him.

Pylades:

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Orestes:

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Pylades:

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ElectraClassical · Greek

Orestes's silent but loyal companion and kinsman-by-friendship who accompanies him throughout the revenge mission.

Pylades, I hold you first among men as a kind and trusted friend to me.

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he chose Pylades as an assistant in the work and drove back the servants;

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But now that I see this maidservant, bearing a weight of water on her shorn head, let us sit down, and inquire of this slave girl, if we may receive some word about the matter, Pylades, for which we have come to this land.

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Iphigenia in TaurisClassical · Greek

Orestes's cousin and devoted companion, who accompanied him to Tauris and is entrusted with carrying Iphigenia's letter to Argos.

Pylades:

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Pylades:

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Orestes:

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ElectraClassical · Greek

Orestes' loyal companion, present at the return to Mycenae and departure toward Agamemnon's tomb.

Exeunt Paedagogus on the spectators left, Orestes and Pylades on the right.

electra ¶

Now, therefore, Orestes, and you, best of allies, Pylades, our plan of action must be quickly laid;

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To Orestes and Pylades.

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On Moral EndsHellenistic · Latin

Mythical friend of Orestes, cited as the legendary paradigm of loyal friendship willing to die for the other.

Or, if you were Orestes, would you refute Pylades, declare yourself, and, if you could not prove it, would you not entreat that you both be slain together?

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Against Aphobus IClassical · Greek

An Athenian banker in whose bank the father had deposited six hundred drachmae.

twenty-four hundred drachmae in the bank of Pasion, six hundred in that of Pylades, sixteen hundred in the hands of Demomeles, son of Demon, and about a talent loaned without interest in sums of two hundred or three hundred drachmae.

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OrationsImperial · Greek

Legendary faithful friend of Orestes, cited as one of the rare true friendships

Such as anyone might name—those bruited-of demigods, Orestes and Pylades, and Theseus and Pirithous, and Achilles and Patroclus?

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On The Estate Of PyrrhusClassical · Greek

Brother of Lysimenes and one of Pyrrhus's uncles who testified to being present at Pyrrhus's alleged marriage ceremony.

on the other hand, Lysimenes and his brothers, Chaeron and Pylades, declare that they were summoned by Pyrrhus when he was about to make this brilliant match and were present at the ceremony, in spite of the fact that they were uncles of the bridegroom.

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PythianClassical · Greek

The loyal friend of Orestes, whose 'rich fields' (in Phocis, near Delphi) are named as the setting of Thrasydaeus's third Pythian victory.

Come, children of Harmonia, where even now he calls the native host of heroines to assemble, so that you may loudly sing of holy Themis and Pytho and the just navel of the earth, at the edge of evening, in honor of seven-gated Thebes and the contest at Cirrha, in which Thrasydaeus caused his ancestral hearth to be remembered by flinging over it a third wreath as a victor in the rich fields of Pyla …

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SymposiumClassical · Greek

Hero cited with Orestes as performing deeds of valor through mutual respect.

So we have songs telling also how Orestes, Pylades, Theseus, Peirithous, and many other illustrious demi-gods wrought glorious deeds of valour side by side, not because they shared a common bed but because of mutual admiration and respect.

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