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In the meantime Aletes, the son of Aegisthus, seized the throne of Mycenae.

Aletes was slain by Orestes, and 176 Electra became the wife of Pylades.

In another it is stated that Aletes, being advised by an oracle to attack the city on a “crowned day,” took it during a great funeral solemnity by the treachery of the youngest daughter of Creon: these, however, are for the most part mere attempts at an historical interpretation of ancient festival ceremonies.

They came, according to Pausanias, from Gonusa, near Sicyon, to assist the Dorians against Corinth:332 Aletes, however, at the advice of an oracle, at first refused to receive them, but presently admitted them into the city, where they afterwards overthrew his own descendants.

This has been overlooked by Eusehius, since he makes Aletes contemporary with Eurysthenes.