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Greek matricide
Answer for the clue "Greek matricide ", 7 letters:
orestes
Alternative clues for the word orestes
- Euripides tragedy
- Euripides hero who killed his mother to avenge his father
- Member of the house of Atreus
- Hero of Sophocles' "Electra"
- Son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon
- The Furies pursued him
- Aeschylus character
- Agamemnon's avenger
- Clytemnestra's slayer
- In myth, killer of his own mother, Clytemnestra
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.