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Clytemnestra's son
Answer for the clue "Clytemnestra's son ", 7 letters:
orestes
Alternative clues for the word orestes
- Clytemnestra's slayer
- Hero of Sophocles' "Electra"
- Matricidal figure of myth
- Homeric character who commits matricide
- Member of the house of Atreus
- Euripides play that ends with the title character's wedding to Hermione
- Mythical Greek or Ballplayer Minoso
- Electra's brother
- Euripides hero who killed his mother to avenge his father
Word definitions for orestes in dictionaries
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Orestes was a figure in Greek mythology. Orestes or Orestis may also refer to: In drama : Orestes (play) , a tragedy by Euripides A character in the tragedy Electra (Sophocles) A character in Aeschylus' trilogy of tragedies Oresteia Places : Orestes, Indiana ...
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.