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Pylades is shown protecting Orestes during his spell of madness. Pylades returns to his homeland, but is exiled by his father for taking part in the crime. He then returns to Orestes' side and helps him to come up with a plan to avoid execution.
Pylades may be said to emphasize Orestes' responsibility for fulfillment at Choephori 900-2 when he asks what will become of Apollo's oracles if Orestes does not kill his mother.
Pylades and Orestes in Pindar’s Eleventh Pythian: The Uses of Friendship. In: Mitsis P, Tsagalis C (ed.) Allusion, Authority, and Truth: Critical Perspectives on Greek Poetic and Rhetorical Praxis .
By playing Orestes to Pluto’s Pylades, Dionysus replicates Orestes’ choice: in choosing Aeschylus, he returns in effect to his initial search for a γόνιμος ποιητής, a “fertile poet” who would produce well-born phrases (96–97); in this way, he upholds the value of male potency in the sphere of poetry.
The relationship between Pylades and Orestes is a crucial aspect of the Greek mythological story of Orestes. Pylades serves as a loyal and supportive companion to Orestes throughout their many trials and adventures.
The excerpt below picks up as Ovid relates that he once heard the tale of Orestes and Pylades from an old man in Tomis. Orestes and Pylades arrive in Tauris and quickly find themselves threatened by the local inhabitants and taken to be sacrificed in the Temple of Artemis.
Be that as it may, the poet, having been led from Thrasydaeus to Orestes by way of Pylades, proceeds with a rendition of what is, on the strength of extant Greek literature, the best known of the myths pertaining to Orestes and his family. He touches upon the rescue of the young Orestes at the
