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Atreus vowed to sacrifice his best lamb to Artemis. Upon searching his flock, however, Atreus discovered a golden lamb which he gave to his wife, Aerope, to hide from the goddess. She gave it to Thyestes, her lover and Atreus' brother, who then persuaded Atreus to agree that whoever had the lamb should be king.
Aerope's father was Catreus, son of Minos, and king of Crete.Catreus had two other daughters, Clymene and Apemosyne, and a son, Althaemenes. [4]In most accounts, Aerope was the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus, fathered by Atreus.
Sunny Suljic (/ ˈ s ʌ l dʒ ɪ k /; [1] born August 10, 2005) [2] is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Bob in Yorgos Lanthimos's 2017 drama The Killing of a Sacred Deer [3] and as the voice and motion capture actor for Atreus, the son of Kratos, in the 2018 video game God of War, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Performance in a Video Game [4] and the D.I ...
Atreus (/ ə ˈ t r eɪ. ə s / ə-TRAY-əs) [54] is the son of Kratos and the giant named Faye. From a young age, he was sheltered from both of his parents' pasts, not knowing he was half giant, one quarter god, and one quarter mortal, which resulted in him being sickly.
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]
Atreus retook the throne using advice he received from the gods. Zeus sent Hermes to him, advising him to get Thyestes to agree that should the sun rise in the west and set in the east, Atreus could have his throne back. Atreus did so, and Helios reversed his normal course, in anger over Thyestes' actions. [4]
Son of Atreus and king of Mycene. He led the Greeks in the Trojan War. XII: 626, XIII: 216–655, XV: 855 [16] Aglaulus: One of the three daughters of Cecrops. II: 559-819 [17] Ajax the Great: Grandson of Aeacus and son of Telamon. Greek hero in the Trojan War. XII: 624, XIII: 2-390 [18] Ajax the Lesser: Son of Oïleus and Greek hero in the ...
However, elsewhere he has Aerope as the wife of Atreus, [29] and Agamemnon and Menelaus as the sons of her and Atreus, [30] Scholia to Pindar's Olympian 1 mention a son, or bastard son, of Pelops, named Pleisthenes, which some scholars have identified with the Pleisthenes who was the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. [31]