For ten points, who was this candidate for the Jerry Springer show, who usurped the throne of Mycenae with his lover Clytemnestra, killing Agamemnon when he returned from Troy?
His mother, Pelopia, was also his sister, because his father-grandfather, Thyestes, acted on the advice of the oracle of Delphi, and consummated an incestuous union with Pelopia. Then his great-uncle Atreus, whom he later killed, married his mother-sister, and adopted him! For ten points, who was this candidate for the Jerry Springer show, who usurped the throne of Mycenae with his lover Clytemnestra, killing Agamemnon when he returned from Troy?
His mother, Pelopia, was also his sister, because his father-grandfather, Thyestes, acted on the advice of the oracle of Delphi, and consummated an incestuous union with Pelopia.
Aegisthus