Aegisthus was Clytemnestra’s lover in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon.
He conspired with Clytemnestra to kill her husband, Agamemnon.
See also:
- What Is the Name of the Lover in D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)?
- Who Represents Agamemnon in Eugene O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)?
- What Sets Off the Quarrel Between Achilles and Agamemnon at the Beginning of Homer’s the Iliad (Ninth Century B.C.)?
- When Was D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover on the Bestseller List in the U.S.?
- Who Was Molly Pitcher, the Heroine of the American Revolution?
