oresteum

Updated: May 18, 2025

The next morning the ephors calmly replied to the angry threats of the Athenians, by protesting that their troops were already on the march, and by this time in Oresteum, a town in Arcadia, about eighteen miles distant from Sparta.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete

The sufferings they endured with and for one another our ancestors recorded on a brazen pillar in the Oresteum; and they made it law, that the education of their children should begin with committing to memory all that is inscribed thereon. More easily shall a child forget his own father's name than be at fault in the achievements of Orestes and Pylades.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

You have persuaded me already that you were right in deifying Orestes and Pylades, though I thought differently just now. I had no conception, either, what a painter you were. Your description of the pictures in the Oresteum was most vivid; that battle-scene, and the way in which the two intercepted one another's wounds.

of Samosata Lucian - Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 03

And when Aristides again reprehended them, they told him in derision that he either doted or dreamed, for the army was already at Oresteum, in their march towards the strangers; as they called the Persians. Aristides answered that they jested unseasonably, deluding their friends, instead of their enemies. Thus says Idomeneus.

Plutarch - Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans

And when Aristides again reprehended them, they told him in derision that he either doted or dreamed, for the army was already at Oresteum, in their march towards the strangers; as they called the Persians. Aristides answered that they jested unreasonably, deluding their friends, instead of their enemies.

Plutarch - The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch : being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls