Aegisthus

Born of the cursed remnant of Thyestes’s house, Aegisthus stayed home from Troy, won Clytemnestra, and struck down Agamemnon at the feast — “as a man fells an ox at the manger,” says the king’s ghost. Zeus himself opens the Odyssey with his case: warned by Hermes and destroyed by his own choices, he is Homer’s proof that mortals’ sufferings exceed their fate through their own folly.