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Orestis Andreadakis
Orestes was the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, in Greek mythology. Orestes or Orestis may also refer to: * Orestes (Greek myth), other figures in Greek mythology Drama * ''Orestes'' (play), a tragedy by Euripides * A character in the tragedy ''Electra'' (Sophocles) * A character in Aeschylus' trilogy of tragedies '' Oresteia'' Places * Orestes, Indiana, United States, a town * Orestis (region), in Upper Macedonia * Mount Orestes, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Orestes Valley, Victoria Land, Antarctica * Orestes Glacier, Victoria Land, Antarctica * 13475 Orestes, an asteroid sharing the planet Jupiter's orbit Watercraft * HMS ''Orestes'', various British Royal Navy ships * USS ''Orestes'' (AGP-10), a United States Navy motor torpedo boat tender Other uses * Orestes (insect), a genus of stick insects * Orestes (given name), and persons with the name Orestes, Orestis, Oreste or Orest * Orestes (footballer) (born 1981), Brazilian footballer * "Orestes", a song by A Perfect ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes
In Greek mythology, Orestes or Orestis (; grc-gre, Ὀρέστης ) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, and the brother of Electra. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older ones. Etymology The Greek name Ὀρέστης, having become "Orestēs" in Latin and its descendants, is derived from Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to stand”), and so can be thought to have the meaning "stands on a mountain". Greek literature Homer In the Homeric telling of the story, Orestes is a member of the doomed house of Atreus, which is descended from Tantalus and Niobe. He is absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returns from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra. Seven years later, Orestes retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Orestes (AGP-10)
USS ''Orestes'' (AGP-10) was a motor torpedo boat tender that served in the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. ''Orestes'' was laid down as landing ship tank USS ''LST–135'' at Chicago Bridge and Iron Company, Seneca, Illinois, on 8 July 1943, and launched on 16 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Bernard Sharp. Prior to completion, she was converted into a motor torpedo boat tender at Maryland Drydock Company, Baltimore, Maryland. Redesignated AGP-10, she was commissioned as USS ''Orestes'' (AGP–10) on 25 April 1944. Successfully concluding her shakedown out of Hampton Roads, Virginia, on 23 May 1944, ''Orestes'' prepared for World War II duty in the Pacific. Departing Chesapeake Bay on 5 June 1944, she transited the Panama Canal and, after a stop-over at Bora Bora, sailed on to New Guinea. She began motor torpedo boat tending operations at Aitape on 23 August 1944, transferred to Mios Woendi a month later, and on 12 November 1944 joined General Douglas MacArthur’s Philip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes (father Of Romulus Augustulus)
OrestesNo other names are known, according to J.R. Martindale ''The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire'' vol. II pp. 811–812. Cambridge University Press, 1980 (died 28 August 476) was a Roman general and politician of Pannonian ancestry, who held considerable influence in the late Western Roman Empire. Biography Born to a Roman aristocratic family from Pannonia Savia, Orestes was son of Tatulus, a pagan, and son-in-law to Romulus, who served as ''comes'' in the Western Roman Empire. After Pannonia was ceded to Attila the Hun, Orestes joined Attila's court, reaching high position as a secretary (''notarius'') in 449 and 452. In 449 Attila sent him twice to Constantinople with ambassador Eslas.Priscus, ''History'', fragment 7.Priscus, ''History'', fragment 8. In 475, Orestes was appointed ''magister militum'' and '' patricius'' by Western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos. This proved to be a mistake on the part of Nepos. By 28 August 475, Orestes, at the head of the ''foedera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes (prefect)
Orestes (Floruit, fl. 415 AD) was a Roman state official serving as governor of the diocese of Egypt (the Augustal prefect) in 415. During his term of office, he waged a violent feud against the bishop of Alexandria, Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril, and their struggle precipitated the death of the philosopher and scientist Hypatia. Biography In 415, during his office, he clashed with the young bishop of Alexandria, Cyril of Alexandria, Cyril, who had been appointed shortly before Orestes to succeed to the Patriarchate of Alexandria after the death of Theophilus I of Alexandria, Theophilus, Cyril's own uncle. Orestes steadfastly resisted Cyril's agenda of ecclesiastical encroachment into secular prerogatives. On one occasion, Cyril sent the ''grammaticus'' Hierax to secretly discover the content of an edict that Orestes was to promulgate on the mimes shows, which attracted great crowds. When the Jews, with whom Cyril had clashed before, discovered the presence of Hierax, they rioted, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Aurelius Orestes (consul 126 BC)
Lucius Aurelius Orestes was a Roman politician who served as consul of the Roman republic in 126 BC with Marcus Aemilius Lepidus. He had served as praetor some time before 129 BC. After his consulship, he was assigned as proconsul in Sardinia, with Marcus Aemilius Scaurus and Gaius Gracchus as his subordinates. His command in Sardinia was prorogued in 124 BC, which his quaestor and lieutenant Gaius Gracchus responded to by deserting for home to stand for plebeian tribune. After winning victory over the natives, he triumphed in 122 BC. See also * Gaius Gracchus Gaius Sempronius Gracchus ( – 121 BC) was a reformist Roman politician in the 2nd century BC. He is most famous for his tribunate for the years 123 and 122 BC, in which he proposed a wide set of laws, including laws to establish ..., who was assigned as one of his quaestors in Sardinia References Sources * * * 2nd-century BC Roman consuls Orestes, Lucius {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucius Aurelius Orestes (consul 157 BC)
Lucius Aurelius Orestes (Latin, ''Lucius Aurelius L. f. L. n. Orestes'') was a magistrate and consul in the service of the Roman Republic. He was consul in the year 157 BC together with Sextus Julius Caesar. He was further mentioned in the Roman Fasti and by Gaius Plinius Secundus Gaius Plinius Secundus (AD 23/2479), called Pliny the Elder (), was a Roman author, naturalist and natural philosopher, and naval and army commander of the early Roman Empire, and a friend of the emperor Vespasian. He wrote the encyclopedic '' ... in his work ''Historia Naturalis''.H. N. xxxiii. 3. s. 17 References Orestes, Lucius 2nd-century BC Roman consuls 2nd-century BC diplomats {{AncientRome-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mer De Noms
''Mer de Noms'' (French for ''"Sea of Names"'') is the debut studio album by American rock band A Perfect Circle. The album was released on May 23, 2000, and entered the ''Billboard'' 200 at No. 4, making it the highest ever ''Billboard'' 200 debut for a rock band's first album. It sold over 188,000 copies in the first week, and was certified platinum by the RIAA later that same year. Three singles were released in promotion of the album, " Judith", " 3 Libras", and "The Hollow", all of which hit the top 20 of both the Billboard US Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts. Background The band was originally conceived by Billy Howerdel, a former guitar technician for Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, Fishbone and Tool. Howerdel met singer Maynard James Keenan in 1992, when Tool was opening for Fishbone, and the two became friends. Three years later, Keenan offered Howerdel, who was looking for lodging, a room in his North Hollywood home. This provided Howerdel the opportuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes (footballer)
Orestes Júnior Alves (born 24 March 1981 in Lavras, Minas Gerais), known simply as Orestes, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield position whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Centre-backs are usually positioned in pairs, with one full-back on either s .... References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Orestes 1981 births Living people People from Lavras Brazilian men's footballers Men's association football defenders Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Santos FC players Primeira Liga players Liga Portugal 2 players C.F. Os Belenenses players Vitória F.C. players F.C. Maia players C.D. Santa Clara players Associação Naval 1º de Maio players Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players FC Hansa Rostock players S.C. Damash Gilan players Super League Greece players Veria F.C. players Qatar Stars ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes (given Name)
Orestes or Orestis ( gr, Ορέστης) is a Greek name meaning . Orestes in Greek mythology is the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, brother of Electra and Iphigenia. He is noted for avenging the murder of his father by killing his mother and her lover Aegisthus, whereafter he was pursued by the Furies and driven mad. Equivalents in different languages include: * Aresti – found mostly in the Basque country and the island of Sardinia * Oreste – Italian * Orest ( Cyrillic: Орест) – Ukrainian (sometimes Oryst in transliteration), Polish and Russian Given name *Orest Banach (born 1948), American soccer player *Orest Khvolson (1852–1934), Russian physicist * Orest Kindrachuk (born 1950), Canadian ice hockey player *Orest Kiprensky (1782–1836), Russian artist and portraitist *Orest Lenczyk (born 1942), Polish soccer manager *Orest Levytsky (1848–1922), Ukrainian historian *Orest Meleschuk (born 1940), Canadian curler * Orest Miller (1833–1889), Russian folklorist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes (insect)
The genus ''Orestes'' combines relatively small and elongated Phasmatodea species from Southeast and East Asia. Characteristics The representatives of this genus are rather small with in the males and in females. Both sexes are always wingless and colored in different shades of beige to brown and often show high-contrast drawings with white areas, especially in younger females and female nymphs. Males are more of a single color in different shades of brown. The thorax is cylindrical or approximately cylindrical, unlike that of representatives of the genus ''Pylaemenes'', whose meso- and metanotum is flattened or slightly roof-shaped, with a clearly raised central and two lateral longitudinal keels. The mesonotum of the ''Orestes'' females is slightly widened to the rear and there are often two lateral longitudinal rows of tubercles. The legs and especially the femura of the forelegs often have clear edges. The abdomen of adult, egg-laying females is clearly enlarged towards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HMS Orestes
Several ships of the Royal Navy have carried the name HMS ''Orestes'', after the mythical son of Agamemnon, who avenged his father's murder: * was a Dutch-built brig-sloop In the 18th century and most of the 19th, a sloop-of-war in the Royal Navy was a warship with a single gun deck that carried up to eighteen guns. The rating system covered all vessels with 20 guns and above; thus, the term ''sloop-of-war'' enc .... She was captured from the Dutch in 1781, taken into Royal Navy service, and disappeared in the Indian Ocean in 1799. * was a ship sloop of 14 guns, purchased in 1803; her crew burnt her in 1805 to prevent the enemy capturing her. * was a of 16 guns, launched in 1805 and sold in 1817. * was a sloop, launched on 31 May 1824 and converted into a coal depot in 1852. * was a , launched on 18 August 1860 and scrapped in 1866. * , an , launched in 1916 and sold for scrap in 1921. * was an , sunk as a target in Seacat missile trials. {{DEFAULTSORT:Orestes, Hms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orestes (Greek Myth)
In Greek mythology, Orestes (; Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστης "mountain dweller" derived either from ''orestias'' "of the mountains" or ''oresteros'' "mountainous" from ''oros'' "mountain") was the name of several figures, the most famous being Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Other figures named Orestes include: * Orestes, one of the leaders of the satyrs who joined the army of Dionysus in his campaign against India.Nonnus, 14.106 *Orestes, son of river god Achelous and princess Perimede, daughter of King Aeolus of Thessaly. He was the brother of Hippodamas. * Orestes, a Greek warrior slain by Hector and Ares during the Trojan War. * Orestes, a Trojan soldier who attacked the Achaean wall together with Asius and was killed by Leonteus, a Lapith leader.Homer, ''Iliad'' 12.139 & 193 Notes References * Apollodorus, ''The Library'' with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
