Aegisthus

## Appearence

### Clothing

Begins his loop wearing brown/maroon suit. Towards the end of his loop puts on a bald headed mask and removes his shirt. Later he puts on a wrap around top in Iphigenia's bedroom.

### Seen In

Begins his loop in the Elysium Hotel, goes from there via Hesperides' through the border to Mycenae

## Cast

### Played By

Ali Goldsmith, Andrea Carrucciu, Harry Price, Luigi Nardone, Paul Zivkovich, Ryan O'Neill, Steven James Apicello, Timothy John Bartlett

Aegisthus is the cousin of Agamemnon, and paramour to Queen Clytemnestra.

His story arc revolves around his seduction of Clytemnestra, and obsession with power, driving him to plot to kill Agamemnon, so he may bear the crown himself.

## 1:1s

Aegisthus has two '1:1' scenes, including a walk-out.

Typically following Iphigenia's wedding party, he will take a WM into a private scene, in the small room off of The Shower Room. \_\_\_ \_\_\_ \_\_\_ He will remove the mask of the WM, and then he pull a rope from a hole in the room. The end of the rope being a cast, he opens the cast without showing the WM the inside. With strobing lights, he puts on the crown inside the cast, and whisper to the WM, that “This is all mine”…

Upon the conclusion of the Mycenae Finale, Aegisthus will arise from the floor and reach out a hand to a WM, walking them through to Troy, remove their mask, thank them for coming, and redirect them towards PEEP.

## Trivia

A list of little known trivia such as changes to the loop or character since previews began.

## Mythology

##### Origin

* Aegisthus was born as a result of the incestuous rape of Pelopia by her father Thyestes.
* Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus (father of Agamemnon).
* Thyestes had an affair with Atreus' wife, Aerope and in revenge, Atreus killed Thyestes' sons and served them to him unknowingly.
* Thyestes asked an oracle how best to gain revenge. The advice was to father a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, and that son would kill Atreus.
* When Aegisthus was born, Pelopia abandoned him, ashamed of his origin, and he was raised by shepherds and suckled by a goat, hence his name Aegisthus (male goat).
* On the night of her rape Pelopia stole a sword from Thyestes, which she gave to her son Ageisthus.

##### Life

* Atreus, not knowing the baby's origin, took Aegisthus in and raised him as his own son.
* Atreus sends Aegisthus to kill Thyestes
* The sword which Aegisthus carries results in Thyestes recognising his son. So instead of killing his father Thyestes, Aegisthus returned to Mycenae and killed his Uncle Atreus.
* The father and son jointly rule over Mycenae and exile the Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus to Sparta. The Spartan King gives them each a daughter to take as a wife. Agamemnon marries Clytemnestra.
* After the death of the Spartan King, Meneleaus takes the Spartan throne. Meneleaus uses the Spartan army to drive out Aegisthus and Thyestes from Mycenae and installs Agamemnon and his wife on the throne. Agamemnon sets about extending his dominion.
* Agamemnon is forced to sacrifice his own daughter Iphigenia in order to appease the gods before setting off for Troy.
* While Agamemnon is away fighting in the Trojan War, Clytemnestra turns against her husband and takes Aegisthus as a lover.
* Upon Agamemnon's return to Mycenae, Aegisthus and Clytemnestra kill Agamemnon.
* Following Agamemnon's death, Aegisthus and Clytemnestra reign over Mycenae for seven years and have a son, Aletes, and two daughters, Erigone and Helen.
* In the eighth year of his reign Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, returns to Mycenae and avenges his father death by killing Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.