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ɔˈrɛs tiz, oʊˈrɛs-orestes
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Orestesnoun
(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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Orestes
In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (; Greek: Ὀρέστης [oréstɛːs]) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and the brother of Electra. 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.
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orestes
Orestes is a figure from Greek mythology, the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, who is known for avenging his father's death by killing his mother and her lover. In another context, Orestes can also refer to a play by Euripides based on this mythological figure's story.
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Orestes
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 has a root in ὄρος, "mountain".
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Orestes
the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, and brother of Electra and Iphigenia, who killed his mother to avenge the murder by her of his father and went mad afterwards, but was acquitted by the Areopagus and became king of Argos and Lacedæmon; his friendship for Pylades, who married his sister Electra, has passed into a proverb; the tragic story is a favourite theme of the Greek tragedians.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of orestes in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of orestes in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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