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  • Orestes (died 28 August 476) was a Roman general and politician of Pannonian ancestry. He joined the court of Attila the Hun in his native Pannonia, in...
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  • 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...
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    Romulus Augustulus (category 5th-century births)
    to settle on, which was refused by Orestes. Under their leader Odoacer, the foederati defeated and killed Orestes and deposed Romulus, whereafter Odoacer...
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    Deposition of Romulus Augustus (category 5th century in Italy)
    the aristocratic Orestes, who had once been a trusted official of Attila, the Hun ruler. Rather than take the throne himself, Orestes had his young son...
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  • Hypatia (category 5th-century Egyptian people)
    of Christian clerics under Cyril's authority, nearly killed Orestes. As punishment, Orestes had Ammonius, the monk who had started the riot, publicly tortured...
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    Julius Nepos (category 5th-century births)
    appointed magister militum Orestes revolted and marched on Ravenna, capital of the Western Empire. Unable to deal with Orestes' forces, Nepos fled back...
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    identity, that Orestes is alive. Iphigenia then offers to release Orestes if he will carry home a letter from her to Greece. Orestes refuses to go, and...
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  • 5th century books)
    Heracles, Trojan Women, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Ion, Helen, Phoenician Women, Orestes, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Cyclops, Rhesus Aristophanes: The Acharnians...
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    prediction of the return of Orestes, son of Agamemnon, who will seek to avenge his father. The Libation Bearers opens with Orestes' arrival at Agamemnon's...
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  • The Last Legion (category Films set in the 5th century)
    Romulus and his father Orestes refuse to give the Gothic warlord Odoacer a third of Italy. On the same day, Romulus meets the general of the Nova Invicta...
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    Odoacer (category 5th-century kings of Italy)
    command of Orestes were significant contingents of Germanic peoples made up mostly of Rugii and Heruli tribesmen. Before the end of that year Orestes had rebelled...
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    Euripides. Among these fragments, six plays are included: Hecuba, Phoenissae, Orestes, Andromacha, Hippolytus and Medea. About sixty palimpsest manuscripts of...
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    ceded to Attila the Hun, whom Orestes came to serve as a secretary. Though there is no reason to believe that Orestes himself ever doubted his own Romanness...
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  • leaders in the 5th century BC – State leaders in the 3rd century BC – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 4th century BC (400–301...
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    Diocese of Egypt (category 4th-century establishments in Egypt)
    (388) Alexander (388-390) Evagrius (391) Hypatius (392) Potamius (392) Orestes (415) Theognostus (c. 482) Petrus Marcellinus Felix Liberius (c. 539-542)...
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    Living Through the Greek Crisis By Marjory McGinn Scholia on Euripides, Orestes, 932 Pausanias, Description of Greece, 4. 1. 1–2 Pausanias, Description...
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