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Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus were both killed by her son Orestes as revenge for Clytemnestra's murder of his father, Agamemnon. Orestes, with the help of his sister Electra, plotted and carried out the murders to avenge their father's death.

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What happened to Argamemnon after the Trojan war?

Upon Agamemnon's return from Troy he was murdered by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.


How did Clytemnestra die?

She and her lover Aegisthus stabbed him to death in the bath.


What happened to Agamemnon after the fall of troy?

Agamemnon , upon his return home from Troy , was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra's lover Aegisthus .


Who was Aegisthus?

Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. He was Clytemnestra's lover, though she was married to Agamemnon, and helped her kill him.


Why does Clytemnestra hate Agamemnon?

There are two different stories:Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, and this made Clytemnestra angry.Clytemnestra was unfaithful and took on a lover, Aegisthus, and because of this, she killed her husband, Agamemnon.


What is the story of Aegisthus Agamemnon Clytemnestra and Orestes?

King Agamemnon of Mycenae was at the Trojan war. His wife, Clytemnestra, cheated on him with Aegisthus. When Agamemnon came back from the Trojan War, Clytemnestra and Aegistus teamed up and chopped his head off. Orestes is Clytemnestra and Agamemnon's son. He killed his mother, Clytemnestra to avenge his father.


What does aegisthus look like?

Handsome enough for Clytemnestra to want to have an affair with him.


How did King Agamemnon die?

While Agamemnon was away at war, his wife, Clytemnestra took a lover named Aegisthus, son of Thyestes. All accounts of his death are either at his hands or hers.


Who is the daughter of agamemnon?

Agamemnon had two daughters with his wife Clytemnestra. They were Electra and Iphigenia. Iphigenia was sacrificed to the Gods during the Trojan war, though it is said that Artemis put a hart in her place and took Iphigenia off to Crimea. Electra, on the other hand, has a very different story. Clytemnestra hated her husband. When he returned home from Troy she and her lover, Aegisthus, killed him. Electra plotted for years with her brother Orestes to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus as revenge for them killing Agamemnon. Finally she convinced him to kill their mother and his lover.


What happened to Cassandra at the end of the Trojan war?

She was raped by Ajax The Lesser, and abducted, then becoming Agamemnon's concubine, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered them when they came to Mycenae or Argos where Agamemon was king.


Who was Clytemnestra's husband?

Broteas first, who was killed by Agamemnon who was her husband during the Trojan War, who was killed by Aegisthus.


Who killed Agamemnon?

Aegisthus and Clytemnestra both played a part in Agamemnon's death, however there are two versions of who physically killed Agamemnon. In book 3 of The Odyssey, it was Aegisthus who plotted and killed Agamemnon. In Aeschylus' tragedy Agamemnon, Aeschylus changed the killer to Clytemnestra. The murder was avenged by the son Orestes. The Odyssey simply mentioned that Orestes avenged Agamemnon's death by killing both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. In Libation Bearers, Aeschylus developed a complete plot and went into details why and how Orestes accomplished his matricide. Killing one's parents is against nature in Greek mythological tradition, thus Orestes was tried in an Athenian court by an Athenian jury with Apollo as his defense lawyer, and Athena as the presiding judge. The jury was deadlocked and Athena casted the deciding vote. You may want to read The Eumenides, the last of The Oresteiatrilogy by Aeschylus to find out whether Orestes was found guilty or not!