Aegisthus and Clytemnestra then ruled Agamemnon's kingdom for a time, Aegisthus claiming his right of revenge for Agamemnon's father Atreus having fed Thyestes his own children ( Thyestes then crying out " So perish all the race of Pleisthenes!

While Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was absent on his expedition against Troy, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and was so wicked as to offer up thanks to the gods for the success with which his criminal exertions were crowned.

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

Unlike her sister, Electra, Chrysothemis did not protest or enact vengeance against their mother for having an affair with Aegisthus and then killing their father.

When Agamemnon left Mycenae for the Trojan War, Aegisthus seduced his wife, Clytemnestra, and the couple plotted to kill her husband upon his return.

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

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 ).

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, it is based around the character of Electra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

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

Orestes goes to the ceremony of the dead, where the angry souls are released by Aegisthus for one day where they are allowed out to roam the town and torment those who have wronged them.

In repudiating the murders of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Electra allows Zeus to determine her past for her.

Unlike in Aeschylus ’ The Libation Bearers, where revenge is one of the main themes throughout the play, Sartre ’ s Orestes does not kill Aegisthus and Clytemnestra for vengeance or because it was his destiny, instead it is for the sake of the people of Argos, so that they may be freed from their enslavement.

Thyestes fathered Aegisthus with his own daughter, Pelopia, and this son vowed gruesome revenge on Atreus ' children.

In Greek mythology, Aegisthus ( ; also transliterated as Aegisthos ) was the son of Thyestes and of Thyestes ' daughter, Pelopia.

In the night in which Pelopia had shared the bed of her father, she had taken from him his sword which she afterwards gave to Aegisthus.

However, when Thyestes returns, Atreus secretly kills Thyestes ' sons, Pelopia and Aegisthus.

In Greek mythology, Thyestes ( pronounced,, ) was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, King of Olympia, and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus.

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

| 22401 Egisto || || Aegisthus, in Greek mythology, son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia *

In old versions of the story: " The scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers too ".

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.

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.

His wife Clytemnestra ( Helen's sister ) was having an affair with Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, Agamemnon's cousin who had conquered Argos before Agamemnon himself retook it.

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

A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son.

A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son.

Clytemnestra and Aegisthus had three children: Aletes, Erigone, and Helen, who died as an infant.

A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son.

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

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.

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

When King Agamemnon returns from the Trojan War with his new concubine, Cassandra, his wife Clytemnestra ( who has taken Agamemnon's cousin Aegisthus as a lover ) kills them.

* Aletes ( son of Aegisthus ), who was killed by Orestes

The play recounts the story of Orestes and his sister Electra in their quest to avenge the death of their father Agamemnon, king of Argos, by killing their mother Clytemnestra and her husband Aegisthus, who had deposed and killed him.

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

Atreus, not knowing the baby's origin, took Aegisthus in and raised him as his own son.

Atreus in his enmity towards his brother sent Aegisthus to kill him ; but the sword which Aegisthus carried was the cause of the recognition between Thyestes and his son, and the latter returned and slew his uncle Atreus, while he was offering a sacrifice on the seacoast.

Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.

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.

After the war, having escaped the massacre organized by Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus of Agamemnon and his retinue, he travelled to Italy and founded the city of Falerii ( now Civita Castellana ), which received its name after him.

As Aegisthus returns home, they quickly put her corpse under a sheet and present it to him as the body of Orestes.

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