NOUN
- (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
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.
