# Aegisthus — The Odyssey character guide

> Aegisthus in The Odyssey by Homer.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** treacherous Aegisthus

**First appearance:** 0001-the-odyssey

## Who they are

The lover of Clytemnestra who helped murder Agamemnon, later killed by Orestes.

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