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A-Z: General definitions: Aegisthus
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The lover of Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, and murderer of Agamemnon.King of Mycenae, son of Atreus, brother of Menelaus and husband of Clytemnestra.
wife of Agamemnon, she later instigated his murder
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