Character guide

Orestes

major

Also known as Orestes Pallas Athena, Orestes O Pallas

Son of Agamemnon, pursued by the Furies for matricide, seeking purification.

Athena

major

Also known as Pallas, Athena Wise, O Pallas

Goddess of wisdom who establishes a court to judge Orestes.

Apollo

major

Also known as Phoebus Apollo, Leader Phoebus Apollo, Lord Apollo, Loxias

God who commands Orestes to avenge his father and protects him.

The Furies

major

Also known as the Erinyes, Erinyes, Some Furies, The Erinyes

Ancient goddesses of vengeance who pursue Orestes for matricide.

Clytemnestra

supporting

Also known as the Ghost of Clytemnestra, The Ghost

Murdered wife of Agamemnon whose ghost rouses the Furies against Orestes.

Zeus

supporting

Also known as Eternal Zeus, Hellenic Zeus, Zeus divine

Supreme god, invoked as authority by Apollo and others.

Agamemnon

minor

Also known as the Agamemnon

Murdered king of Argos, father of Orestes, whose death drives the plot.

The Eumenides

supporting

Also known as Eumenides

The transformed Furies, honored as kindly ones after the trial.

Hermes

minor

Messenger god, briefly mentioned or appearing in the narrative.

Ares

minor

Also known as Ares Zeus

God of war, invoked in oaths or background references.

Themis

minor

Titaness of divine law and order, referenced in the context of justice.

Mother Earth

minor

Also known as O Mother, Mother

Primordial goddess, invoked as a source of oracles and life.

Moira

minor

Personification of fate, mentioned in choral passages.

Bromios

minor

Epithet of Dionysus, referenced in the context of ecstatic worship.