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Clytemnestra's killer
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orestes
Alternative clues for the word orestes
- Ballplayer Minoso
- Euripides hero who killed his mother to avenge his father
- Son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon
- Hero of Sophocles' 'Electra'
- Clytemnestra's son
- Greek victim of the Furies
- Euripides play that ends with the title character's wedding to Hermione
- Member of the house of Atreus
- In myth, killer of his own mother, Clytemnestra
Word definitions for orestes in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In Greek mythology , Orestes (; ) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon . He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older ones.
Usage examples of orestes.
Selwey, along with what I knew about little men with Napoleon complexes and misogynous men with Orestes complexes, made me wonder what I was in for.
The consul Orestes finally managed to establish order, and Catulus asked to speak.
Lucius Aurelius Orestes, not a well man at the best of times, was lying full length in the vestibule being tended by an anxious praetor.
Not one day after I received your chastening note, your esteemed colleague Lucius Aurelius Orestes, the junior consul, died suddenly.
Now Orestes, they say, dedicated not merely one image of Diana in one place, but many and in many places.