Aigisthos
mythological figure · 2 works · 8 mentions · 22 anchored passages
Aegisthus · false Aigisthos
in the texts
Odyssey
Legendary figure who seduced Clytemnestra, murdered Agamemnon, and was in turn slain by Orestes, offered as the paradigm case of a man punished for his own folly.
have you not heard how people are singing Orestes' praises [ kleos] for having killed his father's murderer Aigisthos?
At that moment he was thinking of Aigisthos, who had been killed by Agamemnon's son Orestes;
Then Athena said, "Father, son of Kronos, King of kings, it served Aigisthos right, and so it would any one else who does as he did;
Agamemnon
Cousin of Agamemnon and lover of Klutaimnestra; listed among the dramatis personae though he does not appear in this opening window.
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