Despite her appreciation for her peasant husband, Electra resents being cast out of her house and her mother's loyalty to Aegisthus.

On Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered ( according to the fullest version of the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11. 409 – 11 ) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.

Aegisthus successfully murdered Atreus and restored his father to the throne.

In order not to be surprised by the return of Agamemnon, he sent out spies, and when Agamemnon came, Aegisthus invited him to a repast at which he had him treacherously murdered.

Incidentally, Telemachus learns the fate of Menelaus ’ brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks at Troy: he was murdered on his return home by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

After a back-and-forth struggle that featured adultery, incest and cannibalism, Thyestes gained the throne after his son Aegisthus murdered Atreus.

Electra was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War to be murdered, either by Clytemnestra's lover Aegisthus, by Clytemnestra herself, or by both.

This Pelops, carrying the ancestral name, and his twin brother Teledamus ( destined to have been " far-ruling "), the very emblems of the Pelopides, were murdered in their infancy by the usurper Aegisthus.

His wife Clytemnestra never forgave him, and when he returned from the war ten years later, she and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon.

Agamemnon arrives home and is there murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Agamemnon's cousin Aegisthus.

When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.

", thus explaining Aegisthus ' action as justified by his father's curse ).

Agamemnon's son Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra ( his own mother ), thereby inciting the wrath of the Erinyes ( English: the Furies ), winged goddesses who tracked down egregiously impious wrongdoers with their hounds ' noses and drove them to insanity.

She abandoned him and he was raised by shepherds and suckled by a goat, hence his name Aegisthus ( from, buck ).

Aegisthus and his father now took possession of their lawful inheritance from which they had been expelled by Atreus.

After this event Aegisthus reigned seven years longer over Mycenae, until in the eighth Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, returned home and avenged the death of his father by putting the adulterer to death.

Many of the Greek wives were persuaded to betray their husbands, most significantly Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, who was seduced by Aegisthus, son of Thyestes.

Seven years later, Orestes returned from Athens and with his sister Electra avenged his father's death by slaying his mother and her lover Aegisthus.

Murder of Aegisthus by Orestes and Pylades-red-figure Apulian oinochoe ( wine jug ), c. 430-300 BC

However, when Aegisthus was first born, he was abandoned by his mother who was ashamed of her incestuous act.

While he was fighting the Trojans, his wife Clytemnestra, infuriated by the murder of her daughter, began an affair with Aegisthus.

However, when Aegisthus was first born, he was abandoned by his mother, ashamed of her incestuous act.

As Pelopia had been impregnated by Thyestes, she soon gave birth to Aegisthus and abandoned him.

When he already entered adulthood, Thyestes was captured by Agamemnon and Menelaus at Delphi and brought to Atreus, who sent Aegisthus to kill him.

Aegisthus happened to be carrying the sword that once belonged to Thyestes and was later given to him by Pelopia ; Thyestes recognized the sword and asked Aegisthus about it.

She later kills Agamemnon ( Brian Cox ) during the Sack of Troy ; in classical mythology Agamemnon is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Apollo gives an order through the Oracle at Delphi that Agamemnon's son, Orestes, is to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, her lover.

Orestes slaying Aegisthus

After his return to Greece, Orestes took possession of his father's kingdom of Mycenae ( killing Aegisthus ' son, Alete ) to which were added Argos and Laconia.

In Euripides ’ other story about Iphigenia, Iphigenia in Tauris, the play takes place after the sacrifice and after Orestes has killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.

She and her brother Orestes plotted revenge against their mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

Pylades and Orestes killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ( in some accounts with Electra helping ).

Orestes had been sent to Phocis during his mother Clytemnestra's affair with Aegisthus.

With his friend Pylades ' assistance, Orestes murders mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Seven or eight years after the death of Agamemnon, Agamemnon's son Orestes returned to Mycenae and, with the help of his cousin Pylades and his sister Electra, killed both their mother, Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus.

She saved his life by sending him to Strophius after the murder of Agamemnon, whereas Aegisthus killed her own son, taking him for Orestes.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

This was the source of the curse that haunted future generation of Hippodamia's and Pelops ' children, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.

This curse would haunt future generation of Pelops ' family, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, Orestes and Chrysippus.

This was the source of the curse that haunted future generation of Pelops ' children, including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus and Orestes.

The name derives from the character Orestes, who sets out to avenge his father after his mother's affair with Aegisthus.

In The Eumenides of Aeschylus ( 458 BC ), the Areopagus is the site of the trial of Orestes for killing his mother ( Clytemnestra ) and her lover ( Aegisthus ).

The insanity of Saul is skilfully managed ; and the horrid joy of Orestes in killing Aegisthus rises finely and naturally to madness in finding that, at the same time, he had inadvertently slain his mother.

The Tragedy of Orestes is the story of Aegisthus ’ s murder of Agamemnon with Clytemnestra ’ s help.

When the truth is revealed, Orestes kills the baby born of Aegisthus and his mother and forces the parents to drink the child ’ s blood.