Orestes is tormented by the Erinyes , or Furies, deities that avenge patricide and matricide . Orestes at the instigation of his sister Electra and the god Apollo, has killed their mother Clytemnestra , who had killed their father , King Agamemnon, who had killed his daughter and their sister , Iphigenia .
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Friday 27 January 2012
' The Remorse of Orestes ' William Adolphe Bouguereau ( French 1825-1905) Oil on canvas , circa 1862. The Chrysler Museum of Art , Norfolk , Virginia .
Orestes is tormented by the Erinyes , or Furies, deities that avenge patricide and matricide . Orestes at the instigation of his sister Electra and the god Apollo, has killed their mother Clytemnestra , who had killed their father , King Agamemnon, who had killed his daughter and their sister , Iphigenia .
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