Aegisthus

First appears: Apollodorus, Epitome 2

🌐 Also appears in: The Odyssey (as Aegisthus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Aegisthus)

Life events

Aegisthus killed Atreus and restored the kingdom to Thyestes.(Apollodorus, Epitome 2)
- With: Thyestes Atreus
- “And Aegisthus, when he was grown to manhood and had learned that he was a son of Thyestes, killed Atreus, and restored the kingdom to Thyestes.”
Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra murdered Agamemnon and Cassandra, and Aegisthus seized the throne.(Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 Mycenae)
- With: Agamemnon Clytaemnestra Cassandra
- “After Agamemnon had returned to Mycenae with Cassandra, he was murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra; for she gave him a shirt without sleeves and without a neck, and while he was putting it on he was cut down, and Aegisthus reigned over Mycenae . And they killed Cassandra also.”
Orestes killed his mother Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus to avenge Agamemnon's murder.(Apollodorus, Epitome 6 · 📍 Mycenae)
- With: Orestes Clytaemnestra
- “so he departed secretly to Mycenae in company with Pylades, and killed both his mother and Aegisthus.”

parent: Thyestes (Thyestes fathered Aegisthus.) “and begot Aegisthus by his daughter”
enemies with Atreus (Aegisthus killed Atreus.) “Aegisthus, when he was grown to manhood and had learned that he was a son of Thyestes, killed Atreus”

with Orestes (interaction) “killed both his mother and Aegisthus”
with Clytaemnestra (They were adulterous partners.) “Clytaemnestra with Aegisthus”
with Agamemnon (interaction) “Agamemnon ... was murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra”
with Cassandra (interaction) “And they killed Cassandra also”
child: Erigone “Erigone, daughter of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra”
with Agamemnon (Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon.) “he was murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra”
courtship with Clytaemnestra “Clytaemnestra with Aegisthus”

Extracted from the original text of Greek Mythology. Made with Rho MD.