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

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

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

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!

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Atreus, Agamemnon's father, murdered the children of his twin brother Thyestes and fed them to him after discovering Thyestes ' adultery with his wife Aerope.

In addition, Thyestes had an affair with Atreus ' wife, Aerope.

According to these sources, Menelaus ' father Atreus had been feuding with his brother Thyestes over the throne of Mycenae.

The play tells the story of Thyestes, son of Pelops, King of Pisa, who, along with his brother Atreus, was exiled by Pelops for the murder of their half-brother, Chrysippus.

Atreus subsequently discovers that his wife, Aerope, had been having an affair with Thyestes, and he vows revenge.

He asks Thyestes to return to Mycenae with his family, telling him that all past animosities are forgotten.

He tricked Thyestes into eating the flesh of his own sons and then taunted him with their hands and feet.

He served Thyestes his own sons and then taunted him with their hands and heads.

An oracle then advised Thyestes that, if he had a son with his own daughter Pelopia, that son would kill Atreus.

In 1681, John Crowne wrote Thyestes, A Tragedy, based closely on Seneca's Thyestes, but with the incongruous addition of a love story.

The libretto was a text in French by Hugo Claus, based on his 20th century play with the same title ( in Dutch: Thyestes ).

Thyestes had been fighting with his brother, Atreus, for the throne of Mycenae for some time, as well as having an affair with Atreus ' wife, Aerope.

An oracle then advised Thyestes that, if he had a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, that son would kill Atreus.

So when Pelopia, who at the time stayed in Sicyon at the court of king Thesprotus, came to the bank of a river to wash her clothes that had been stained with blood during a sacrificial rite, Thyestes, covering his face, attacked and raped her.

Upon recognizing Thyestes and the fact that he was the rapist, Pelopia stabbed herself with her father's sword.

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.

After eating his own sons ' corpses, Thyestes asked an oracle how best to gain revenge.

His first move was to pursue Thyestes and all his family-that is, his own kin-but Thyestes managed to escape from Mycenae.

Thyestes responded by asking an oracle what to do, who advised him to have a son by his daughter, Pelopia, who would then kill Atreus.

Pelopia, less commonly known as Mnesiphae, was the daughter of Thyestes.

Hippodamia ( also Hippodamea and Hippodameia from ) is a mythological figure, the daughter of King Oenomaus and wife of Pelops with whom her offspring were Thyestes, Atreus, Pittheus, Alcathous, Troezen, Hippalcimus, Copreus, Astydameia, Nicippe, Eurydice and others.

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

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.