Aegisthos

Japanese: Aigisthos

…Furthermore, Atreus, under pretense of reconciliation, invited his brother and his son to a banquet, where he secretly killed the boy and ate his flesh, and then showed him his head and his limbs. To get his revenge, Thyestes, following an oracle, fathered a son, Aigisthos, with his own daughter. He killed Atreus, and his son, Agamemnon, succeeded him, and together with his brother Menelaus, were called the Atreidae (the descendants of Atreus). …

From [Electra]

…(3) Daughter of King Agamemnon of Mycenae and his wife Clytemnestra. When her mother and her lover Aegisthos murdered her father after he returned victorious from the Trojan War, she fled her young brother Orestes out of the country, and when he returned home with his cousin Pylades as an adult, she joined forces with him to avenge their father. She is well known for her roles in tragedies such as Aeschylus's Oresteia trilogy and Sophocles' and Euripides' Electra.

From Orestes

…In Greek legend, the son of King Agamemnon of Mycenae and his wife Clytemnestra. When his father, who had returned victorious from the Trojan War, was murdered by his mother and her lover Aegisthos, Orestes, who was still a boy, fled to his uncle King Phocis with the help of his sister Electra, and was raised by his cousin Pylades. After coming of age, he received an oracle from Apollo to avenge his father, and returned to his homeland with his lifelong friend Pylades, and killed his mother and her lover. …

From Clytemnestra

…Sister of Helen. She resented her husband for sacrificing her daughter Iphigeneia to enable the Greek fleet to set sail for Troy. She conspired with her cousin-in-law Aigisthos, with whom her husband had been engaged during his campaign, to murder her husband, who had returned in triumph after a ten-year absence, along with the Trojan princess Cassandra, whom he had brought back as a concubine, but was later killed by her son Orestes. [Tomohiro Mizutani]. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Aigisthos" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…さらにアトレウスは和解をよそおい，弟とその子を供宴に招き，ひそかにその子を殺し肉を食せしめた後，首や手足を示した。テュエステスは復讐を遂げるため神託に従って，実の娘との間にアイギストスAigisthosをもうけた。彼によりアトレウスは殺され，後をその子アガメムノンが継ぎ，弟メネラオスとともにアトレイダイ(アトレウスの胤)と呼ばれる。…

【エレクトラ】より

…(3)ミュケナイ王アガメムノンと妃クリュタイムネストラの娘。トロイア戦争から凱旋した父を母とその情人アイギストスAigisthosが謀殺したとき，幼い弟オレステスを国外に逃し，成人してからいとこのピュラデスPyladēsとともに故国に戻った弟と力をあわせて父の仇を討った。アイスキュロスの〈オレステイア三部作〉，ソフォクレスおよびエウリピデスの《エレクトラ》などの悲劇作品でよく知られる。…

【オレステス】より

…ギリシア伝説で，ミュケナイ王アガメムノンと妃クリュタイムネストラの子。トロイア戦争から凱旋した父を母とその情人アイギストスAigisthosが謀殺したとき，まだ少年だったオレステスは姉エレクトラの手引きで叔父のフォキス王のもとに逃れ，いとこのピュラデスPyladēsとともに育てられる。成人後，父の仇を報ぜよとのアポロンの神託をうけた彼は，生涯の友となったピュラデスと故国に帰り，母とその情人を討った。…

【クリュタイムネストラ】より

…ヘレネの姉妹。夫がトロイアをめざすギリシア艦隊の出帆を可能ならしめるために娘のイフィゲネイアを犠牲に供したことを恨んだ彼女は，夫の出征中に通じた義理の従兄弟のアイギストスAigisthosと謀り，10年ぶりに凱旋した夫を，婢妾として連れ帰ったトロイア王女カッサンドラもろともに殺害したが，のち息子のオレステスに討たれた。【水谷智洋】。…

※「Aigisthos」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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