Aegisthus Definition

ĭ-jĭsthəs
noun
The son of Thyestes and lover of Clytemnestra. He helped Clytemnestra kill her husband Agamemnon upon Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War.
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The son of Thyestes and lover of Clytemnestra: he helps her to kill her husband, Agamemnon.
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Aegisthus Sentence Examples

  • Atreus was murdered by Aegisthus, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his father Thyestes.

  • Menelaus succeededTyndareus, and Agamemnon,with his brother's assistance, drove out Aegisthus.

  • His kinsman, Aegisthus, who in the interval had seduced his wife Clytaemnestra, invited him to a banquet at.

  • Among the titles of his tragedies are Aegisthus, Lycurgus, Andromache or Hector Proficiscens, Equus Trojanus, the last named being performed at the opening of Pompey's theatre (55).

  • He reached Sparta on the day on which Orestes was holding the funeral feast over Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra.

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