# Orestes — Discourses character guide

> Orestes in Discourses by Epictetus.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0004-i-of-the-things-which-are-in-our-power-and-not-in-our-power

## Who they are

Son of Agamemnon, used in tragic examples of vengeance.

## In the story

### [XX: Against the Epicureans and Academics](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/discourses_se/chapters/xx-against-the-epicureans-and-academics)

Compared to Epicurus: Orestes was agitated by the Erinyes, but Epicurus was roused by even more savage forces (nature) to write his doctrines.

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