Definitions for aegisthus
iˈdʒɪs θəsaegisthus

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1. Aegisthusnoun

   (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him

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1. Aegisthus

   Aegisthus (; Ancient Greek: Αἴγισθος; also transliterated as Aigisthos, [ǎi̯ɡistʰos]) was a figure in Greek mythology. Aegisthus is known from two primary sources: the first is Homer's Odyssey, believed to have been first written down by Homer at the end of the 8th century BCE, and the second from Aeschylus's Oresteia, written in the 5th century BCE. Aegisthus also features heavily in the action of Euripides's Electra (c. 420 BCE), although his character remains offstage.

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1. aegisthus

   Aegisthus is a character in Greek mythology who was involved in the murder of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, upon his return from the Trojan War. He is depicted as an adulterer and usurper, often symbolizing treachery and deceit. Aegisthus was the partner of Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, with whom he plotted the king's murder, and is typically portrayed as an arrogant and cowardly figure.

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1. Aegisthus

   In Greek mythology, Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes and of Thyestes' daughter, Pelopia. Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus. The two battled back and forth several times. In addition, Thyestes had an affair with Atreus' wife, Aerope. In revenge, Atreus killed Thyestes' sons and served them to him unknowingly. After eating his own sons' corpses, Thyestes asked an oracle how best to gain revenge. The advice was to father a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, and that son would kill Atreus. Thyestes raped Pelopia after she performed a sacrifice, hiding his identity from her. When Aegisthus was born, his mother abandoned him, ashamed of his origin, and he was raised by shepherds and suckled by a goat, hence his name Aegisthus. Atreus, not knowing the baby's origin, took Aegisthus in and raised him as his own son. In the night in which Pelopia had shared the bed of her father, she had taken from him his sword which she afterwards gave to Aegisthus. This sword became the means by which the incestuous intercourse between her and her father was discovered, whereupon she put an end to her own life. Atreus in his enmity towards his brother sent Aegisthus to kill him; but the sword which Aegisthus carried was the cause of the recognition between Thyestes and his son, and the latter returned and slew his uncle Atreus, while he was offering a sacrifice on the seacoast. Aegisthus and his father now took possession of their lawful inheritance from which they had been expelled by Atreus.

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   The numerical value of aegisthus in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

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   The numerical value of aegisthus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

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1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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