What is "orestes"

son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra, from Greek Orestes, literally "mountaineer," from oros "mountain" (see oread).

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.

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, United States, a town
• Orestis (region), in Upper Macedonia
• Mount Orestes, Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Orestes Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica
• Orestes Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica
• 13475 Orestes, an asteroid sharing the planet Jupiter's orbit

Watercraft:

• HMS Orestes, various British Royal Navy ships
• USS Orestes (AGP-10), a United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender

Other uses:

• Orestes (given name), and persons with the name Orestes, Orestis, Oreste or Orest
• A song by A Perfect Circle on Mer de Noms

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.

Orestes (, Orestēs) (408 BCE) is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.

Orestes or Orestis is a Greek name, meaning "he who stands on the mountain" or "one who can conquer mountains".

Orestes in Greek mythology is the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, brother of Electra and Iphigenia. He is noted for avenging the murder of his father by killing his mother and her lover Aegisthus, whereafter he was pursued by the Furies and driven mad.

Equivalents in different languages include:

• Aresti - found mostly in the Basque country and the island of Sardinia
• Oreste - Italian
• Orest ( Cyrillic: Орест) - Ukrainian (sometimes Oryst in transliteration), Polish and Russian

Orestes ( fl. 415) was the Praefectus augustalis of the Diocese of Egypt, that is, the Roman governor of the province of Egypt, in 415. He clashed against the bishop of Alexandria, Cyril, and their opposition precipitated the death of the philosopher and scientist Hypatia.