#aletes

[neorestes]

What/who did you miss the most from your youth Orestes?

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Fun fact: Orestes' infant half sister was named Helen, after his mother's sister! In spite of the war taking Iphigenia away, Clytemnestra never blamed or hated Helen.

[scuorge10]

Hmmm

[lesbodysseus]

My designs for the children of Clytemnestra!

+ bonus doodle with Orestes and Helen of Mycenae because I couldn't incorporate her

[lesbian-iphigenia]

"And even if we'd been granted freedom, we'd have still felt alone. Because humans are the cause of all this pain. We're creatures who can't seem to love without exploiting" is actually very The house of Atreus coded. If you think about it

[when-the-pawnn]

How did it feel for Electra and Chrysothemis to watch their mother with her children with Aegisthus?

How did it feel to watch her be affectionate and caring towards their half-siblings while they were enslaved and mistreated by her and their step-father?

How did it feel to watch their mother with her new family while they clung on to memories of how their family used to be before Iphigenia’s death? During a time when their father and eldest sister were alive and little Orestes was still around? A time when they were a happy, perhaps even perfect, family?

[galusandmalus]

*after iphigenia among the taurians "Iphigenia, seizing the opportunity, took the statue, embarked with Orestes and Pylades, and by a favouring breeze was borne to the island Zminthe to Chryses, priest of Apollo"

"Because of this Apollo destroyed almost all the army, partly by famine, partly by pestilence. And so Agamemnon sent back Chryseis, though she was pregnant, to the priest. Though she claimed to be untouched by him, when her time came she bore Chryses the Younger, and said she had conceived by Apollo.

Later, when Chryses was about to return Iphigenia and Orestes to Thoas, he [Chryses the Elder] learned that they were children of Agamemnon, and revealed to Chryses his [grand]son the truth—that they were brothers and that he was a son of Agamemnon. Then Chryses, thus informed, with Orestes his brother, killed Thoas, and from there they came safe to Mycenae with the statue of Diana.

To Electra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, a messenger came, falsely saying that her brother and Pylades had been sacrificed in Taurica to Diana. When Aletes, Aegisthus'son, heard that no-one of the race of the Atreidae survived, he seized the kingly power in Mycenae. But Electra went to Delphi to inquire about her brother's violent death. She came thee the same day that Iphigenia and Orestes arrived. The same messenger who had reported about Orestes, said that Iphigenia was the murderess of her brother. When Electra heard this, she seized a burning firebrand from the altar, and in her ignorance would have blinded her sister Iphigenia if Orestes had not intervened. After this recognition they came to Mycenae, and Orestes killed Aletes, son of Aegisthus, and would have killed Erigone, daughter of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, but Diana rescued her and made her a priestess in the Attic land." -Hyginus, Fabulae

GOD I LOVE HYGINUS CAN ME MAKE HYGINUS THE MAIN GUY WE GET STUFF FROM NOW ON. do I even need to add more. in later versions thoas is trying to marry iphegenia against her will. Ok I guess I did add more. either way love it.

i swear there is a insane iphegenia retelling full novel out there waiting to be written and its not me cuz I'm mostly a perseus guy.

it would be kinda funny if Chryseis was telling the truth it makes sense since apollo favors orestes specifically and not Agamemnon obviously. which in itself is an interesting concept.

[gracchisuggestions]

Oresteia: The Cash-In Sequel

Apollo: Okay, Orestes is acquitted, cycle of kinslaying and vengeance is broken, everyone can just - 

Orestes: [kills his half-brother and rapes his half-sister]

Apollo: JESUS CHRIST, ORESTES*

[lesbian-iphigenia]

If I made a community just for the children of The house if Atreus, would you guys be interested???