Aigisthos
mythological figure · 1 work · 5 mentions · 11 anchored passages
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.
Look at Aigisthos;
At that moment he was thinking of Aigisthos, who had been killed by Agamemnon's son Orestes;
have you not heard how people are singing Orestes' praises [ kleos] for having killed his father's murderer Aigisthos?