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 being murdered by Orestes ( mythology ) | Orestes — Louvre.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

Aegisthus and Thyestes thereafter ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus ' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives.

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.

Aegisthus, the son of Thyestes, killed Atreus and restored Thyestes to the throne.

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

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

Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Thyestes did so and the son, Aegisthus, did kill Atreus.

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

Only as he entered adulthood did Thyestes reveal the truth to Aegisthus, that he was both father and grandfather to the boy and that Atreus was his uncle.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus.

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.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus and restored the kingdom to Thyestes.

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.

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.

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.

Only as he entered adulthood did Thyestes reveal the truth to Aegisthus, that he was both father and grandfather to the boy.

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

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

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.

Electra has been treated as a servant girl since her mother and Aegisthus killed her father.

Aegisthus took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with Thyestes.

He killed Clytemnestra and Aegisthus and succeeded to his father's throne.

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

Menelaus succeeded Tyndareus in Sparta, while Agamemnon, with his brother's assistance, drove out Aegisthus and Thyestes to recover his father's kingdom.

After a stormy voyage, Agamemnon and Cassandra either landed in Argolis, or were blown off course and landed in Aegisthus ' country.

Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, had taken Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, as a lover.

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

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.

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

When Aegisthus was born, his mother was ashamed of her incestuous act.

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.

Unbeknownst to Agamemnon, while he was away at war, his wife, Clytemnestra, had begun an affair with Aegisthus.