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Clytemnestra's killer
Answer for the clue "Clytemnestra's killer ", 7 letters:
orestes
Alternative clues for the word orestes
- In myth, killer of his own mother, Clytemnestra
- Mythological brother of 63-Across
- Brother of Electra
- Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
- Agamemnon's avenger
- His sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
- Tragedy by Euripides
- Euripides play that ends with the title character's wedding to Hermione
- The Furies pursued him
- Hero of 20-Across
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.