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👤 Aigisthos

  • <span class="a type-6580" data-type_id="6580" data-object_id="11320331" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-6580_11320331">🏛️ the Hall (fictional) </span><span class="separator"> </span><span class="a type-11352" data-type_id="11352" data-object_id="11321465" id="y:ui_data:show_project_type_object-11352_11321465">🎨 Wall Painting of Orestes, Aigisthos, Pylades and sons of Nauplios in the Propylaia, Athens, by Polygnotos (LIMC Aigisthos 14)</span>
  • Information
    son of Thyestes
    Son of
    👤 Thyestes (Mycenaean) 👤 Pelopeia (Mycenaean)
    Father of
    👤 Erigone (Mycenaean)
    Husband of
    👤 Clytaimnestra
    Has children with
    👤 Clytaimnestra
    Ruler of
    🌍 Mycenae (Argolid)
    Kills
    👤 Agamemnon 👤 Atreus 👤 Cassandra 👤 Eurymedon (Mycenaean) 👤 Pelops (Mycenaean) 👤 Teledamos 👥 the Companions of Agamemnon
    Dies at
    🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia)
    Killed by
    👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Pylades
    Buried at
    🏛️ the Tomb of Aigisthos (Mycenae)
    Has post-mortem existence at
    🌍 the Underworld
    Dwelling
    🏛️ the House of Aigisthos (Mycenae)
    Related Entities
    👤 Aerope (Argive) 👤 Agamemnon 👤 Aigialeia (Argive) 👤 Aphrodite 👤 Ares 👤 Atreus 👤 Cassandra 👤 Clytaimnestra 👤 Diomedes (Argive I) 👤 Electra (Mycenaean) 👤 Erigone (Mycenaean) 👥 the Erinyes 👤 Zeus 🌍 the Underworld 👤 Hermes 👤 Iphigeneia 👤 Orestes (s. of Agamemnon) 👤 Palamedes 👤 Nausimedon 👤 Oiax 👤 Pylades 👤 Tantalos (Argive) 👤 Thyestes (Mycenaean) 🌍 the Areiopagos (Athens) 🌍 Mycenae (Argolid) 👤 Pelopeia (Mycenaean) 🌍 Argos (city) 🌍 Amyclai (Laconia) 👤 Eurymedon (Mycenaean) 👤 Pelops (Mycenaean) 👤 Teledamos 👤 Charon (boatman) 🏛️ the Tomb of Aigisthos (Mycenae) 🌍 the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi👤 Nauplios (f. of Palamedes) 👤 Guard of Clytaimnestra (name unknown)🏛️ the House of Aigisthos (Mycenae)👤 Watchman of Mycenae (name unknown) 👤 Mestor (s. of Aias)👤 Alcmeon 👤 Argeios (comp. of Aigisthos) 👤 Antiochos (Mycenaean II) 👤 Companion of Agamemnon (name unknown)🏺 the Cloak of Agamemnon 👥 the Sons of Thyestes 👥 the Companions of Agamemnon
    Mentioned by
    📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 2.14📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.23📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.25📖 Pausanias 1.22.6📖 Pausanias 2.18.2📖 Pausanias 2.18.6📖 Homer, Odyssey 1.26-1.43📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.184-3.200📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.262-3.275📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.304-3.312📖 Homer, Odyssey 4.512-4.547📖 Homer, Odyssey 11.385-11.466📖 Homer, Odyssey 24.35-24.97📖 Hesiod, Ehoiai fr. 19 Most📖 Pausanias 2.16.6-2.16.7📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.7-6.11📖 Apollodoros, Epitome 6.24-6.25📖 Hesiod fr. 247 Most📖 Nostoi fr. 10 West📖 Nostoi Argumentum 5 West📖 Cinaithon fr. 4 West📖 Lucian, The Hall 23📖 Lucian, The Dance 67📖 Ps-Lucian, Affairs of the Heart 47📖 Ps-Lucian, The Patriot 16📖 Pindar, Pythian 11 1-37📖 D-Scholia, Iliad 1.7📖 Strabo 1.2.3📖 Diodoros, Library 7.1.1-7.4.4📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1343-1447📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1567-1632📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1654-1670📖 Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1035-1320⚒️ Parian Chronicle (Ashmolean 449945; IG XII, 5, 444; PHI 77668)
    Mentioned in Text
    Apollodoros, Epitome NostoiHomer, OdysseyPausaniasHesiodCinaithonHesiod, EhoiaiStraboLucian, The HallLucian, The DancePs-Lucian, Affairs of the HeartPs-Lucian, The PatriotPindar, Pythian 11Diodoros, LibraryD-Scholia, IliadAeschylus, Agamemnon
    Mentioned in citation of
    📖 Homer, Odyssey 3.262-3.275📖 Homer, Iliad 1.33-1.42📖 Cinaithon fr. 4 West
    Depictions
    🎨 Lucanian Red-Figure Pelike attributed to the Vaste Painter (Logie 156.73; LIMC Aigisthos 15)🎨 Fragment of Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Met 28.57.8a–d)🎨 Roman Marble Sarcophagus (Gregoriano Profano 10450; ASR II, no. 155, pl. 54)🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1801; LIMC Achilleus 376)🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B988; LIMC Achilleus 376)🎨 Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1654)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B4809)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B8405; LIMC Aigisthos 5)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B1802)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from Olympia (Olympia B4962; LIMC Achilleus 376)🎨 Fragment of Bronze Shieldband from the Sanctuary of Poseidon, Isthmia (LIMC Aigisthos 3)🎨 Fragments of Gilded Silver Diadem (Getty 83.AM.343)
    Reported depictions
    🏛️ the Hall (fictional) 🎨 Wall Painting of Orestes, Aigisthos, Pylades and sons of Nauplios in the Propylaia, Athens, by Polygnotos (LIMC Aigisthos 14)
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