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Orestes

A son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. His father was slain by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, but young Orestes was saved from his mother's dagger by his sister Electra, called by Homer, Laodicea, and was conveyed to the house of Strophius, king of Phocis, who had married a sister of Agamemnon. He was indulgently treated by Strophius, who educated him with his son Pylades. The two young princes formed the most inviolable friendship. When Orestes had arrived at years of manhood he avenged his father's death by killing his mother Clytemnestra.

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