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Aegisthus (/ɪˈdʒɪsθəs/;
Ancient Gr****: Αἴγισθος; also
transliterated as Aigisthos, [ǎi̯ɡistʰos]) was a
figure in Gr**** mythology.
Aegisthus is
known from...
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their son
Aegisthus was
first born, he was
abandoned by his mother, who was
ashamed of the
incestuous act. A
shepherd found the
infant Aegisthus and gave...
- Aerope.
Thyestes fathered Aegisthus with his own daughter, Pelopia, and this son
vowed gruesome revenge on Atreus' children.
Aegisthus murdered Atreus, restored...
- of
Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, her
mother Hecuba's fate, Odysseus's ten-year
wanderings before returning to his home, and the
murder of
Aegisthus and...
- Suddenly, the
exiled lover of Clytemnestra,
Aegisthus,
bursts into the
palace to take his
place next to her.
Aegisthus proudly states that he
devised the plan...
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reason why
Pompeius is said to have
referred to
Caesar as "
Aegisthus". In Gr**** mythology,
Aegisthus was
conceived in an
incestuous union when his father,...
- C****andra as his concubine, and thus not
present for Agamemnon's
murder by
Aegisthus, the
lover of his wife, Clytemnestra.
Seven years later,
Orestes returns...
- had been sent to
Phocis during his
mother Clytemnestra's
affair with
Aegisthus.
There he was
raised with Pylades, and so
considered him to be his closest...
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stepfather Aegisthus. When King
Agamemnon returns from the
Trojan War, his wife
Clytemnestra (who has
taken Agamemnon's
cousin Aegisthus as a lover)...
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subsequent rape and
forced marriage).
Aegisthus saw his
father Thyestes betra**** by Agamemnon's
father Atreus (
Aegisthus was
conceived specifically to take...
