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- Instance of
- mythological Greek character
- Part of
- Orestes and Electra
- Sex or gender
- male
- Father
- Agamemnon
- Mother
- Clytemnestra
- Spouse
- Hermione
- Sibling
- Elektra, Laodice, Chrysothemis, Iphianassa, Iphigenia
- Present in work
- The Libation Bearers, Electra
- Said to be the same as
- Agamemnonides
- Position held
- mythological king of Sparta, king of Mycenae, king of Argos
- depicted by
- Orestes and Electra
- described by source
- New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pauly–Wissowa
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- name in native language
- Ὀρέστης
- place of burial
- Tomb of Orestes near sanctuary of the Fates at Sparta, Tomb of Orestes outside Tegea, Mnema of the Finger near Ake
- topic's main category
- Category:Orestes
- unmarried partner
- Erigone
- worshipped by
- Greek mythology
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