person
Aegisthus
also: Αἴγισθος, Αἰγίσθοιο
Seducer and murderer of Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra and, on Agamemnon's return, of Agamemnon himself; killed in turn by Orestes. The poem's recurring cautionary exemplum against the suitors.
Reading notes
- The Odyssey §1.1 Aegisthus
The lover of Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra who murdered Agamemnon on his return from Troy; the gods cite his death at Orestes's hands as proof that mortals bring evils on themselves.
- The Odyssey §3.148 Aegisthus
Agamemnon's murderer; Nestor spells out at length how differently things would have gone had Menelaus caught him still alive.