The story of Orestes' revenge was a popular subject in Greek tragedies.
- There are surviving versions by all three of the great Athenian tragedians:
- The Libation Bearers (458 BC), in the Oresteia Trilogy by Aeschylus
- Electra (Euripides play), a play by Euripides, probably in the mid 410s BC, likely before 413 BC, that tells a very different version of this same basic story from Sophocles.
- Electra (Sophocles play)
- The story was also told at the end of the lost epic Nostoi (also known as Returns or Returns of the Greeks)
- The events are also brought up in Homer's Odyssey
