Aegisthus

NOUN
  1. (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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How To Use Aegisthus In A Sentence

  • So he died and left behind him the ancient sceptre of Tantalus, and Aegisthus reigns in his stead, with the daughter of Tyndareus, Agamemnon's queen, to wife. Electra
  • For my own mother, the baleful daughter of Tyndareus, hath cast me forth from her house to gratify her lord; for since she hath borne other children to Aegisthus she puts me and Orestes on one side at home. Electra
  • Once this revengeful act was done, Aegisthus crowned himself king of Argos with Clytaemnestra as his queen.
  • The greater sin is that the city of Argos is now controlled by this tyranny of Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra.
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