A prefect of Alexandria in the early 5th century, in conflict with patriarch Cyril of Alexandria. See prefect Orestes.
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Orestês, (Greek Ὀρέστης) in Greek legend, was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, and Orestes, of Euripides.
Orestes is also the name of a song by the band A Perfect Circle which is abstractly about the myth of Orestes himself.
Orestes, after the deed, goes mad, and is pursued by the Erinyes, whose duty it is to punish any violation of the ties of family piety.
The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus (Agameinnon, Choephori, Eumenides), of the Electra of Sophocles, of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, and Orestes, of Euripides.
Orestes, according to Zielinski, is the son of the sky-god Zeus-Agamemnon, who overcomes his wife the earth-goddess Gaia-Clytaemnestra; with the assistance of the dragon Aegisthus, she slays her husband, whose murder is in turn avenged by his son.
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