Aegisthus

Aigisthos

Kills Atreus and restores the throne of his father, Thyestes.

Genealogy

Thyestes

Aglaus, Callileon, Orchomenus, Tantalus

Erigone

Places
  1. Greece
  2. Mycenae
  3. Unknown
Events
  1. Thyestes has sex with his daughter and Aegisthus is conceived
  2. Aegisthus kills Atreus
  3. Aegisthus gives Mycenae to Thyestes
  4. Nauplius contrives that the wives of the Greeks play their husbands false
  5. Agamemnon is murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra
  6. Cassandra is murdered by Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra
  7. Aegisthus rules Mycenae
  8. Orestes kills Clytemnestra and Aegisthus
Citations
  1. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 2.14
  2. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.9
  3. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.23
  4. Apollodorus - Library and Epitome: Epitome, Section 6.25
  5. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 1, Section 22.6
  6. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 16.6
  7. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 16.7
  8. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 18.2
  9. Pausanias - Description of Greece: Book 2, Section 18.6
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