orestes in English

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the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra and the brother of Electra and Iphigenia. He killed his mother and her lover Aegisthus to avenge the murder of Agamemnon.

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1. Aegisthus being murdered by Orestes — Louvre.

2. Aegisthus being murdered by Orestes — Louvre.

3. Orestes told her gently not to grieve for them.

4. Aegisthus commands Orestes, whom he believes to be a stranger from Phocia, to uncover the corpse, whereupon Orestes tells Aegisthus to uncover it himself

5. Orestes was appointed Magister militum by Julius Nepos in 475.

6. Aegisthus definition is - a lover of Clytemnestra slain with her by her son Orestes.

7. 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital city, Ravenna.

8. The Trojan cycle also includes the adventures of the children of the Trojan generation (e.g., Orestes and Telemachus).

9. Neoptolemus left Andromache in Epeirus while he went to Phthia to marry Hermione (although she was betrothed to Orestes)

10. Aegisthus CHORUS OF WOMEN OF MYCENAE MUTE PERSONS PYLADES, son of Strophius, King of Phocis, and friend of Orestes A HANDMAID OF CLYTEMNESTRA TWO ATTENDANTS OF ORESTES: As background to the play, King Agamemnon of Mycenae (or Argos in some versions of the myth) had returned from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra.

11. In Andromache, Orestes' embassy, which constitutes a similar external stimulus to the action, reveals itself on close examination to be of a different nature

12. Furthermore, the second part of the book seeks to reconstruct various relations between Diana’s Arician cult and the mythical figures Orestes and Iphigenia, Virbius, Hippolytus, and Egeria

13. Aegisthus in Greek mythology, the lover of his cousin's wife Clytemnestra, who killed her husband Agamemnon; Aegisthus and Clytemnestra were in turn killed by her son Orestes

14. As Aegisthus is uncovering the corpse, he orders Orestes to call for Clytemnestra, and then, as the corpse is revealed, he sees that it belongs to Clytemnestra herself.

15. Aegisthus - (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks

16. In Greek mythology, Erigone (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ ɡ ə n i /; Ancient Greek: Ἠριγόνη) was the daughter of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, rulers of Mycenae.Some accounts said that by her half-brother, Orestes, Erigone was the mother of Penthilus and Tisamenus

17. Aeschylus is best known for his trilogy the Oresteia (458 BC, consisting of the tragedies Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides), which tells the story of Agamemnon's murder at the hands of his wife Clytemnestra and the vengeance of their son Orestes.

18. -- The Chorus threaten vengeance and suggest the name ORESTES as avenger: At this Clytaemnestra starts, _Aegisthus_ enraged gives the signal at which {1626} _Bodyguard of Aegisthus pour in through both the Inferior doors on either side of the Central door of the Palace, and fill the stage [thus producing one of the Scenic Tableaux of which Aeschylus was fond].