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| From [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]], he was the [[son]] of [[king]] [[Agamemnon]] and [[queen]] [[Clytemnestra]]. When his [[father]] is [[murder|murdered]] by Clytemnestra's [[romantic love|lover]] [[Aigisthos]], Orestes [[revenge|avenges]] his father's murder by killing both Aigisthos and Clytemnestra, according to [[Elizabeth Vandiver]], [[Classics]] [[scholarship|scholar]] and authority on [[Greek mythology]] and [[Greek tragedy]] including the ''[[Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey]]'', ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Homer]], and [[Virgil]]. This [[definition]] is based on her course ''Classical Mythology'' from [[The Teaching Company]].
| | In Greek mythology the son of [[Agamemnon]] and [[Clytemnestra]]. |
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