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ORESTES

Gender: Masculine

Usage: Greek Mythology

Other Scripts: Ορεστης (Ancient Greek)

Pronounced: o-RES-teez (English)   [key]

Derived from Greek ορεστιας (orestias) meaning "of the mountains". In Greek myth he was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. He killed his mother and her lover Aegisthus after they killed his father.
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