- Orestes (disambiguation)
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Orestes was the son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology; Orestes may also refer to:
- Drama
- Orestes (play), by Euripides
- Orestes, the character in Sophocles' tragedy Electra
- Orestes, the character in Aeschylus' trilogy of tragedies, Oresteia
- Horestes - a late Tudor morality play by the English dramatist John Pickering that dramatises the story of the myth of Orestes.
- Music
- "Orestes", a song by A Perfect Circle on the album Mer de Noms
- Mythology
- Orestes (mythology), the son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology
- People
- Orestes (name), originating in Ancient Greece.
- Orestes (prefect), a 5th-century official of Alexandria.
- Orestes Brownson, 19th-century American publisher and Catholic convert.
- Orestes of Cappadocia, Christian martyr.
- Orestes Destrade, baseball player.
- Orestes of Macedon, a king in the 4th century BCE.
- Orestes (father of Romulus Augustulus), a 5th-century Roman politician.
- Saint Orestes, a Christian martyr of the Roman era in Italy.
- Places
- Orestis (region) of Upper Macedonia.
- Orestes, Indiana, a town in the United States.
- Ships
- HMS Orestes, the name of several British Royal Navy ships.
- USS Orestes (AGP-10), a United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender in commission from 1944 to 1946.
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