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Drama by Euripides
Answer for the clue "Drama by Euripides ", 7 letters:
orestes
Alternative clues for the word orestes
- Agamemnon's boy
- In myth, killer of his own mother, Clytemnestra
- Greek victim of the Furies
- Hero of 20-Across
- Homeric character who commits matricide
- Euripides play that ends with the title character's wedding to Hermione
- Greek matricide
- His sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon's death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
Word definitions for orestes in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, from Greek Orestes , literally "mountaineer," from oros "mountain" (see oread ).
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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.