person
Orestes
also: Orestes
The mythical son of Agamemnon who killed his mother Clytemnestra and was pursued by the Furies; cited to argue that the crime, not its aftermath, is the madness.
Reading notes
- The Art of Poetry §119-130 Orestes
Son of Agamemnon who avenged his father by killing his mother; the type of the grim, haunted hero.
- The Satires §2.3 like Orestes
The mythical matricide hounded by the Furies; cited to argue the madness lay in the deed itself, not in its aftermath.