Behind the Name: Meaning, Origin and History of the Name Orestes

ORESTES

Gender: Masculine

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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