Killing of Aegisthus · Atlas

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But Orestes said:

The killing of Aegisthus by Orestes during a sacrifice, narrated by the Messenger and later discussed by Electra and the Dioskouroi.

Aegisthus was angry, but my master asked, Why are you disheartened?

As for this corpse of Aegisthus, the citizens of Argos will cover it in the earth in burial.

And he comes bringing a head to show you, not that of the Gorgon, but of the one you hate, Aegisthus;

Orestes' killing of Aegisthus, his mother's secret husband, alongside the matricide.

Aegisthus was her secret husband in the home;