13475 Orestes | Discovered 1973 Sept. 19 by C. J. van Houten and I. van Houten-Groeneveld on Palomar Schmidt plates taken by T. Gehrels. |
Orestes, a son of Agamemnon, was a child at the time of the murder of his father. Electra brought him to his uncle, where he lived together with his cousin Pylades. To avenge his father, Orestes killed Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra. The Erinyen persecuted him until he was absolved by the special jury at the Areopagus. |
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