- Atreus - Mythopedia
Atreus was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia and the elder brother of Thyestes He and Thyestes were banished from their homeland and migrated to Mycenae (according to some traditions, they were exiled by their father for murdering their half-brother Chrysippus)
- Agamemnon – Mythopedia
Atreus, a son of the hero Pelops (and thus grandson of the infamous Tantalus), competed viciously with his brother Thyestes for the throne of Mycenae In some traditions, however, Agamemnon was the son not of Atreus but of Atreus’ son Pleisthenes and his wife (whose name was either Aerope, Cleolla, or Eriphyle)
- Iliad: Book 2 (Full Text) - Mythopedia
The heavenly phantom hover’d o’er my head, ‘And, dost thou sleep, O Atreus’ son? (he said) Ill fits a chief who mighty nations guides, Directs in council, and in war presides; To whom its safety a whole people owes, To waste long nights in indolent repose
- Aegisthus - Mythopedia
Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, was a central figure in the bloody internal feuding of the Tantalid family Thyestes and his brother Atreus had long battled over the throne of Mycenae; once Aegisthus was fully grown, he helped his father kill Atreus The father-son duo briefly ruled over Mycenae before being driven out by Atreus’ son Agamemnon
- Menelaus – Mythopedia
Their mother was Aerope, Atreus’ wife According to an alternative genealogy, however, their father was Pleisthenes, who was himself a son of Atreus (thus making Menelaus and Agamemnon the grandsons, rather than the sons, of Atreus) The Feast of Atreus and Thyestes by Václav Jindřich Nosecký and Michael Václav Halbax (ca 1700)
- Loki - Mythopedia
Loki was the ultimate trickster among the Norse gods, a shapeshifter whose wily deceptions sowed chaos among his people He survived the fallout of his pranks thanks to his wit and cunning
- Agamemnon (Play) - Mythopedia
Atreus’ sons Agamemnon and Menelaus—often known collectively as the Atreids or Atreidae—soon struck back, killing Thyestes and exiling Aegisthus Agamemnon became king of Mycenae (or Argos, in Aeschylus’ version) and married the Spartan princess Clytemnestra
- Clytemnestra – Mythopedia
Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, was the wife of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae She and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon when he returned home from the Trojan War, but were later killed in turn by Orestes, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra’s son
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