Aegisthus
a cousin of Agamemnon who seduced Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, and was later killed by Orestes.
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And how came false Aegisthus to kill so far better a man than himself?
The Odyssey | HomerJust then, came the suit of Aegisthus,—then, when every feeling was uprooted or lacerated in her heart.
Woman in the Nineteenth Century | Margaret Fuller OssoliThe Aegisthus incident maintains the interest to the end in the masterly Sophoclean style of refined and searching irony.
Authors of Greece | T. W. LumbThey have stolen into the palace unobserved, and together they slay Aegisthus.
The Works of Lucian of Samosata, v. 4 | Lucian of SamosataAegisthus got this tutor out of the way and persuaded her to sin.
Essays and Miscellanies | Plutarch
British Dictionary definitions for Aegisthus
/ (iːˈdʒɪsθəs) /
Greek myth a cousin to and the murderer of Agamemnon, whose wife Clytemnestra he had seduced. He usurped the kingship of Mycenae until Orestes, Agamemnon's son, returned home and killed him
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