1) Aeschylus character 2) Brother of electra 3) Brother of iphigenia 4) Euripides play 5) Euripides protagonist 6) Friend of Pylades 7) Greek boy name 8) Greek tragic hero 9) King in Greek mythology 10) King of Mycenae 11) Legendary matricide 12) Matricidal figure of myth 13) Matricide of greek myth
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In Greek mythology, Orestes (z; Ὀρέστης oˈrestɛːs) 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. ==Greek literature== ===Homer=== In the Homeric story, Orestes was a member of t...
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[given name] Orestes or Orestis (Ορέστης) 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, ...
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[prefect] 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. == Biography == In 415, during his office, he clashed with ...
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(from the article `Dracontius, Blossius Aemilius`) ...and Book III is concerned with the dealings of God with man. The account of the Creation was separately circulated during the Middle Ages under ...
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(from the article `Euripides`) In this play Euripides makes nonsense of the old story of Orestes` murder of his mother, Clytemnestra, by setting the play in a world where courts of ...
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(from the article `Romulus Augustulus`) Romulus was the son of the Western empire`s master of soldiers Orestes. His original surname was Augustus, but it was changed to the diminutive ... ...the Sciri tribe. About 470 he entered Italy with the Sciri; he joined the Roman army and rose to a position of command. After the overthrow of the ...
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in Greek mythology, son of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae (or Argos), and his wife, Clytemnestra. According to Homer, Orestes was away when his father ... [1 related articles]
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In Greek mythology, the son of
Agamemnon and
Clytemnestra, who killed his mother on the instructions of Apo...
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In mythology, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who avenged the death of his father.
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Orestes was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. As a child he was smuggled out of Mycenae by his sister Electra when Clytemnestra and Aegisthus seized power. He later killed Clytemnestra with the help of Electra and Pylades and was punished by the Erinnyes.
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HMS Orestes was a British Algerine Class minesweeper of 950 tons displacement launched in 1942. HMS Orestes was powered by two 3-drum type boilers providing a top speed of 16.5 knots. She carried a peacetime complement of 85 and between 104 and 138 in war. For defence she was armed with one 4-inch dual-purpose gun; four 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and...
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n] - (Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
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noun (Greek mythology) the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; his sister Electra persuaded him to avenge Agamemnon`s death by killing Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
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In Greek mythology, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, who killed his mother on the instructions of Apollo because she and her lover Aegisthus had murdered his father. He was subsequently hounded by the Furies until he was purified, and acquitted of the crime of matricide
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Son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; brother of Electra; slew Clytemnestra and Aegisthus; pursued by Furies until his purification by Apollo.
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the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia: he avenged the murder of Agamemnon by killing Clytemenestra and her lover, Aegisthus, then was pursued by the Furies until saved by Athena. · (italics) a tragedy (408 b.c.) by Euripides.
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