Orestes
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| - | "Orestes: In the meanwhile I will kill your daughter. [[Menelaos]]: The mother-killer strikes again! Orestes: His father's avenger and betrayed by you. Menelaos: Wasn't her death enough? Orestes: I can never have my fill of killing whores. [1586-1590]8 The origins of cruelty are not mysterious; the mother-whore makes her son a savage: Menelaos: And those who love their mothers? Orestes: Were born lucky. -^ Menelaos: That leaves you out. Orestes: Yes. I loathe whores [1606-1607] The ." --[[Orestes (play)]] cited in ''[[The Lust to Annihilate: A Psychoanalytic Study of Violence in]]'', [[Eli Sagan]], 1979 | ||
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| In [[Greek mythology]], '''Orestes''' was the son of [[Clytemnestra]] and [[Agamemnon]]. He is the subject of several [[Ancient Greek theatre|Ancient Greek plays]] and of various [[myth]]s connected with his [[madness]] and [[purification]], which retain obscure threads of much older ones. | In [[Greek mythology]], '''Orestes''' was the son of [[Clytemnestra]] and [[Agamemnon]]. He is the subject of several [[Ancient Greek theatre|Ancient Greek plays]] and of various [[myth]]s connected with his [[madness]] and [[purification]], which retain obscure threads of much older ones. | ||
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In Greek mythology, Orestes was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. 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.
Orestes has a root in ὄρος (óros), "mountain". The metaphoric meaning of the name is the person "who can conquer mountains".
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