Aegisthus

Aegisthus in Wikipedia

In Greek mythology, Aegisthus (Ancient Greek: Αἴγισθος ; also transliterated as Aegisthos) was the son of Thyestes and of his daughter, Pelopia. 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. ...

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Aegisthus in Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology

(*Ai)/gisqos), a son of Thyestes, who unwittingly begot him by his own daughter Pelopia. Immediately after his birth he was exposed by his mother, but was found and saved by shepherds and suckled by a goat, whence his name Aegisthus (from αἴξ; Hyg. Fab. 87, 88; Aelian, Ael. VH 12.42). Subsequently he was searched after and found by Atreus, the...

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