| 21. | In the older versions of the story, such as Homer, Aegisthus himself kills Agamemnon.
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| 22. | However, when Thyestes returns, Atreus secretly kills Thyestes'sons, Pelopia and Aegisthus.
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| 23. | Clytemnestra and Aegisthus had three children : Erigone, and Helen who died as an infant.
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| 24. | After Aegisthus and Clytemnestra are killed on stage, Orestes is denied the crown and banished.
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| 25. | Zeus visits Aegisthus to tell him of Orestes's plan and convince him to stop it.
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| 26. | Siegfried Jerusalem seems to relish a break from his normal heldentenor chores in the small part of Aegisthus.
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| 27. | It details how Electra and Orestes'avenge their father Agamemnon's murder by Clytemnestra and Aegisthus.
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| 28. | They escort Aegisthus off set to be killed at the hearth, the same location Agamemnon was slain.
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| 29. | In repudiating the murders of Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, Electra allows Zeus to determine her past for her.
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| 30. | He used the Spartan army to drive out Aegisthus and Thyestes from Mycenae and place Agamemnon on the throne.
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