| 单词 | Aegisthus |
| 释义 | Aegisthus (once / 30229 pages) n WORD FAMILY Aegisthus USAGE EXAMPLESIn Homer, Orestes does not slay Clytaemestra, and he needs no “purification” for slaying Aegisthus. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) The climax of the play is not the mother-murder but the killing of Aegisthus, which was presumably the harder and more exciting job. Murray, Gilbert, Euripedes and His Age(2011) Being admitted to the palace, he slays both Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra. Various, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edit...(2011) n (Greek mythology) the seducer of Clytemnestra and murderer of Agamemnon who usurped the throne of Mycenae until Agamemnon's son Orestes returned home and killed him Exp mythical being an imaginary being of myth or fable |
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