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Aegisthus (/ ɪ ˈ dʒ ɪ s θ ə s /; 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 BC, and the second from ...
However, when Aegisthus was first born, he was abandoned by his mother, ashamed of the origin of her son. A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son. Only as he entered adulthood did Thyestes reveal the truth to Aegisthus, that he was both father and grandfather to the boy and that Atreus was his ...
However, when their son Aegisthus was first born, he was abandoned by his mother, who was ashamed of the incestuous act. A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son. Only as he entered adulthood did Thyestes reveal the truth to Aegisthus, that he was both father and grandfather to the boy.
In modern usage her name is employed as a rhetorical device to indicate a person whose accurate prophecies, generally of impending disaster, are not believed. Cassandra was a daughter of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy. Her elder brother was Hector, the hero of the Greek-Trojan War. The older and most common versions of the myth state that ...
In the Homeric telling of the story, [4] Orestes is a member of the doomed house of Atreus, which is descended from Tantalus and Niobe.He is absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returns from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra.
In Greek mythology, Erigone (/ ɪ ˈ r ɪ ɡ ə n i /; Ancient Greek: Ἠριγόνη) was the daughter of Aegisthus and Clytemnestra, rulers of Mycenae. Some accounts said that by her half-brother, Orestes, Erigone was the mother of Penthilus [1] and Tisamenus. [2]
The Tomb of Aegisthus is a Mycenaean tholos tomb located near the citadel of Mycenae, Greece. It was constructed in the Late Helladic IIA period, [ 1 ] approximately 1510–1450 BCE, [ 2 ] and rediscovered in the 19th century.
Orestes or Orestis (Greek: Ορέστης) is a Greek name meaning ' mountain dweller '. [1] Orestes in Greek mythology is the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, brother of Electra and Iphigenia. He is noted for avenging the murder of his father by killing his mother and her lover Aegisthus, whereafter he was pursued by the Furies and driven mad.