In Greek mythology, Aegisthus ("goat strength", also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigísthos) was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. Greek mythology comprises the collected legends of Greek gods and goddesses and ancient heroes and heroines, originally created and spread within an oral-poetic tradition. ... Transliteration in a narrow sense is a mapping from one script into another script. ... In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops, King of Mycenae, and Hippodamia and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. ... In Greek mythology, Pelopia or Pelopea was the daughter of Thyestes. ...

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. This article is about the Greek archaeological site. ... In Greek mythology, King Atreus (Greek: Ατρεύς, Atreús) (fearless) of Mycenae was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. ... In Greek mythology, Aerope was the wife of King Atreus of Mycenae. ... For alternate usages of Oracle, see Oracle (disambiguation) An Oracle is a person or agency considered to be a source of wise counsel or prophetic opinion; an infallible authority, usually spiritual in nature. ...

When Aegisthus was born, his mother was ashamed of her incestuous act. She abandoned him and he was raised by shepherds and suckled by a goat. Atreus, not knowing the baby's origin, took Aegisthus in and raised him as his own. When Aegisthus reached adulthood, Thyestes revealed his true parentage, that he was both father and uncle to Aegisthus, who then killed Atreus and seized the throne.

Aegisthus and Thyestes ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives. At his death, Tyndareus gave his throne to Menelaus, who then helped Agamemnon overthrow Aegisthus and Thyestes. This article is about the Greek archaeological site. ... Mask of Agamemnon from Mycenae, Greece. ... This article is about Menelaus the king of Sparta. ... Sparta (Grk. ... In Greek mythology, Tyndareus (or Tyndareos) was a Spartan king, son of Oebalus (or Perieres) and Gorgophone (or Bateia), husband of Leda and father of Castor, Polydeuces (Pollux), Philonoe, Clytemnestra and Helen. ... Clytemnestra (also Klytaimnéstra or Clytaemnestra, praiseworthy wooing) was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. ... Helen was the wife of Menelaus and reputed to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and her abduction by Paris brought about the Trojan War. ...

After Agamemnon left Mycenae for the Trojan War, Aegisthus wanted to seduce his wife, Clytemnestra (mother of Erigone). Agamemnon had left Clytemnestra with a singer; as long as the singer was present, Clytemnestra resisted Aegisthus. Aegisthus then took the singer to a deserted island, and Clytemnestra was seduced. On the kings' return after the ten-year war, Aegisthus helped Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon (and his new concubine, Cassandra); they subsequently ruled Mycenae for seven years. The Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of Greece, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. ... In Greek mythology, Erigone was the daughter of Icarius. ... Cassandra was a pseudonym of William Connor, long standing British journalist Painting by Evelyn De Morgan In Greek mythology, Cassandra (she who entangles men) (also known as Alexandra) was a daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecuba, who captured the eye of Apollo and so was given...

Eight years later, Agamemnon's son, Orestes, and his daughter, Electra, returned to Mycenae and killed both Clytemnestra, and Aegisthus. This article is about the Greek mythological personalities. ...

Homer, Od. iii. 263, iv. 517; Hyginus, Fab. 87. Bust of Homer in the British Museum For other uses, see Homer (disambiguation). ... Gaius Julius Hyginus, (c. ...

Much later, when Orestes was visiting Iphigenia in Crimea, Aegisthus' son, Alete, took over Mycenae. Orestes killed him upon his return. 112 Iphigenia is an asteroid. ... The Crimea (officially Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukrainian transliteration: Avtonomna Respublika Krym, Ukrainian: Автономна Республіка Крим, Russian: Автономная Республика Крым, pronounced cry-MEE-ah in English) is a peninsula and an autonomous republic of Ukraine on the northern coast of the Black Sea. ... In Greek mythology, Alete was a son of Aegisthus. ... This article is about the Greek archaeological site. ...