Definitions for Orestes

Orestes O·res·tes

Spelling: [aw-res-teez, oh-res‐]
IPA: /ɔˈrɛs tiz, oʊˈrɛs‐/

Orestes is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in Orestes (eeorsst).

Definitions for Orestes

noun

  1. Classical Mythology. 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.
  2. (italics) a tragedy (408 b.c.) by Euripides.

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Orestes also killed his mother; and we do not judge Orestes as we judge Nero.

After him he killed Menon, Iamenus, and Orestes, and laid them low one after the other.

Still, after the father's death, the son Orestes restores Family and State.

It was an Orestes whom his sister Electra was raising in her arms on his bed of pain.

Then Orestes would know the manner of the death by which he must die.

A case in point is Orestes pursued by the furies, as described by the poets.

“Nor, by my faith, could I,” exclaimed the first lieutenant of the Orestes.

And the little Orestes will wail, not knowing what he doeth, seeing he is but a babe.

Just then Orestes (Stockhausen) stood up and lifted his noble barytone.

She is married,” said Orestes, “to this Pylades, whom thou seest.

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