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Thyestes and Aerope, painting by Nosadella In Greek mythology , Thyestes (pronounced / θ aɪ ˈ ɛ s t iː z / , Greek : Θυέστης , [tʰyéstɛːs] ) was a king of Olympia . Thyestes and his brother, Atreus , were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus , in their desire for the throne of Olympia.
The Farnese Atreus (1574 engraving by Antonio Lafreri and Cornelis Cort) depicts Atreus and one of the sons of Thyestes. In Greek mythology, Atreus (/ ˈ eɪ t r i ə s / AY-tri-əs, / ˈ eɪ t r uː s / AY-trooss; [1] Ἀτρεύς Ancient Greek pronunciation:) [a] was a king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.
The Treasury of Atreus or Tomb of Agamemnon [1] is a large tholos or beehive tomb constructed between 1300 and 1250 BCE in Mycenae, Greece. [2]It is the largest and most elaborate tholos tomb known to have been constructed in the Aegean Bronze Age, and one of the last to have been built in the Argolid.
Thyestes is a first century AD fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of approximately 1112 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, which tells the story of Thyestes, who unwittingly ate his own children who were slaughtered and served at a banquet by his brother Atreus. [1]
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Aerope stole the golden lamb (a portent linked to the kingship of Mycenae) from her husband Atreus and gave it to Thyestes, so that the Myceneans would choose Thyestes as their king. [ 18 ] From Byzantine period annotations to Euripides' Orestes, we learn that, in some unspecified Sophocles work, Atreus cast Aerope into the sea in revenge for ...
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Aegisthus, the son of Thyestes, killed Atreus and restored Thyestes to the throne. With the help of King Tyndareus of Sparta, the Atreids drove Thyestes again into exile. Tyndareus had two ill-starred daughters, Helen and Clytemnestra, whom Menelaus and Agamemnon married, respectively. Agamemnon inherited Mycenae and Menelaus became king of Sparta.