Atreus
the father of Plisthenes, Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia upon whose house Thyestes pronounced a curse.
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Resurrected by the gods, Pelops has a son whom he names Atreus, and Atreus repeats the family curse.
It was as inevitable as that the doom of Orestes should follow the original crime of the house of Atreus.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdIn Mycenæ we find the “Tomb of Atreus,” a magnificent building in the form of a beehive.
The New Stone Age in Northern Europe | John M. TylerAtreus, to revenge himself of his unnatural brother, killed the sons of Thyestes, and invited him to eat them.
Dryden's Works (13 of 18): Translations; Pastorals | John DrydenBut warlike Menelaus, the son of Atreus, prevailed against them all together, because he gave the greatest gifts.
Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica | Homer and Hesiod
Agamemnon was a son of Atreus according to Homer, and was the brother of Menelaus.
The Browning Cyclopdia | Edward Berdoe
British Dictionary definitions for Atreus
/ (ˈeɪtrɪˌuːs, ˈeɪtrɪəs) /
Greek myth a king of Mycenae, son of Pelops, father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, and member of the family known as the Atreids (ˈeɪtrɪɪdz)
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