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Aegisthus (/ɪˈdʒɪsθəs/;
Ancient Gr****: Αἴγισθος; also
transliterated as Aigisthos, [ǎi̯ɡistʰos]) was a
figure in Gr**** mythology.
Aegisthus is
known from...
- Aerope.
Thyestes fathered Aegisthus with his own daughter, Pelopia, and this son
vowed gruesome revenge on Atreus' children.
Aegisthus murdered Atreus, restored...
- 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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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...
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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)...
- 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...
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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...
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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,...
- mythology,
Erigone (/ɪˈrɪɡəni/;
Ancient Gr****: Ἠριγόνη) was the
daughter of
Aegisthus and Clytemnestra,
rulers of Mycenae. Some
accounts said that by her half-brother...
- tomb is
named for
Aegisthus, the
mythological lover of Clytemnestra, wife of king
Agamemnon of Mycenae. In Gr**** mythology,
Aegisthus first murdered Atreus...
