Aigisthos

Japanese: アイギストス（英語表記）Aigisthos

A legendary Greek hero. Son of Thyestes and his daughter Pelopia. He was raised as the son of his uncle Atreus, who had married Pelopia, but when he grew up and was ordered to kill Thyestes, he discovered who his real father was and killed Atreus instead. Later, while Atreus' two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, were fighting in the Trojan War, he had an affair with Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, and when Agamemnon returned home, he killed him and took the throne of Mycenae. However, when he grew up and returned home, Agamemnon's son Orestes killed both him and Clytemnestra.

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Japanese:

ギリシアの伝説上の英雄。テュエステスが実の娘ペロペイアに生ませた子。ペロペイアを妻にめとった伯父アトレウスの子として育てられるが，長じてテュエステスの殺害を命じられたおりに，実父がだれであったかを知り，逆にアトレウスを殺した。その後アトレウスの2子アガメムノンとメネラオスがトロイ戦争に出征している間に，アガメムノンの妃クリュタイムネストラと通じ，帰国したアガメムノンを殺害，ミケーネの王位についた。しかしやがて成長して帰国したアガメムノンの王子オレステスにクリュタイムネストラともども殺された。

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