AEGISTHUS

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• AEGISTHUS (noun)
  The noun AEGISTHUS has 1 sense:

1. (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

  Familiarity information: AEGISTHUS used as a noun is very rare.

• AEGISTHUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

mythical being (an imaginary being of myth or fable)

Domain category:

Greek mythology (the mythology of the ancient Greeks)