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Homeric character who commits matricide
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orestes
Alternative clues for the word orestes
- Agamemnon's avenger
- His sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
- Son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon
- Hero of Sophocles' "Electra"
- Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
- Iphigenia's brother
- Euripides play that ends with the title character's wedding to Hermione
- Mythical Greek or Ballplayer Minoso
Word definitions for orestes in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Orestes (died 28 August AD 476) was a Roman general and politician of Pannonian ancestry, who was briefly in control of the remnant Western Roman Empire in 475 and 476.
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.