Orestes (disambiguation)

Orestes (disambiguation)

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
People
Places
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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