Biography Orestes

Opect (OresthV) – son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Matricide committed by OA in revenge for the violent death of his father, his mental anguish, his disagreement with the gods and insanity, under the weight of consciousness of guilt – all these many times served as an Athenian playwrights story of the tragedy. Trilogy of Aeschylus ("Agamemnon", "Bearing libation Girls" and "Eumenides") is called Orestes. Pursued by the ghost of the murdered mother and driven furiyami, O. Aeschylus, is reconciliation with his conscience and with the goddesses of vengeance only with the involvement of the gods – Apollo, Athena, Zeus. The composition of Aeschylus predominating idea – the inevitability of divine retribution for the crimes. In Sophocles' tragedy "electro" O. is convinced of the rightness of their cause to chastise Clytemnestra and Egisea, for the innocent who died a hero Agamemnon, Apollo himself calls him to revenge. In Euripides, in the tragedy "Orestes" center of gravity moves to the sphere of emotional states, immediately following the burial of the murdered mother. O. powerless to get rid of tearing the consciousness of his guilt, his mind was darkened, "like the night, three women, his pursuers, submitted himself to the hero of the perturbed voice of conscience, he does not take six days of food, not washing the body, sometimes the consciousness of O. brightened, and he wept at the slightest reminder of matricide, he is alarmed, he sees the menacing ghosts believe in their reality, in such moments, he conjures electro not let him women with bloody eyes and snakes in his hair, he drove from his sister, taking her for a from the furies, requires the bow of Apollo, to reflect the terrible arrows of Erin. Only a dream, sensitive and disturbing, O. brings momentary relief. He is convinced that eats his illness – not more, as the pangs of conscience, he implores Pylades to hide from him his mother's grave, with a father of Clytemnestra, Tindareya, it awakens the thought of his mother, and he was confident that the father himself, for whom he revenged , pleaded to him if he could not kill the mother. The very act of matricide, as he is depicted by Euripides in the tragedy of "electro" Orestes committed against her will, at the urging of his sister, he plunged a knife into the mother's breast covering his face with his cloak, pushed Electro, in reproaching her sister because she forced him to carry out such an atrocity. At the end of the tragedy Diokury condemn the deity for his behavior, turned to the children of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and one of Apollo's called accountability for what happened. The fate of OA served as subject of several recent tragedies (Crebillon, Voltaire, Alfieri, Suma, etc.). Wed Ratin, "Etudes sur les tragiques grecs" (II and III); Mishchenko, "The experience of the history of rationalism in ancient. Greece" (R., 1881).