Orestes

Family: Achaeans · Role: son of Agamemnon · First appears: BOOK IX

Life events

• Leonteus kills Hippomachus, Antiphates, Menon, Iamenus, and Orestes.(BOOK XII)
  • With: Leonteus Hippomachus Antiphates Menon Iamenus
  • “Leonteus, of the race of Mars, killed Hippomachus the son of Antimachus by striking him with his spear upon the girdle. He then drew his sword and sprang first upon Antiphates whom he killed in combat, and who fell face upwards on the earth. After him he killed Menon, Iamenus, and Orestes, and laid them low one after the other.”

BOOK IX

• parent: Agamemnon “my own dear son Orestes, who is being nurtured in all abundance”

BOOK XII

• enemies with Leonteus “After him he killed Menon, Iamenus, and Orestes”

Also listed in Achaeans — Minor Figures

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