Lexicon of Classical Genealogies and Heroic Literary Cycles

• Aegisthus — A tragic figure in Greek mythology, the adulterous son of Thyestes and his own daughter Pelopia, born as an instrument of bloody vengeance within the cursed house of the Pelopidae. He is celebrated as the lover of Clytemnestra, with whom he plotted to assassinate King Agamemnon upon his return from the Trojan War, usurping the throne of Mycenae until he was slain by Orestes in an act of filial retribution.