-
descendants became known collectively as the
Atreidae (Ancient Gr****: Ἀτρείδαι
Atreidai).
Atreus and his twin
brother Thyestes were
exiled by
their father for...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Agamemnon (/æɡəˈmɛmnɒn/;
Ancient Gr****: Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of
Mycenae who
commanded the
Achaeans during the
Trojan War...
-
Clytemnestra (/ˌklaɪtəmˈnɛstrə/, UK also /klaɪtəmˈniːstrə/;
Ancient Gr****: Κλυταιμνήστρα, romanized: Klutaimnḗstra,
pronounced [klytai̯mnɛ̌ːstraː]), in...
- and Anaxibia.
Aeschylus also
followed this
tradition when he
called the
Atreidai "the race of Pleisthenes" (τὸ Πλεισθένους γένος).
According to Hyginus...
-
Leleges to the Gr****s.
Years with no
dates (only "c. ") are
unknown The
Atreidai (Latin Atreidae)
belong to the Late
Bronze Age, or the
Mycenaean Period...
-
Helen (Ancient Gr****: Ἑλένη, romanized: Helénē), also
known as
Helen of Troy, or
Helen of Sparta, and in
Latin as Helena, was a
figure in Gr**** mythology...
- The
Oresteia (Ancient Gr****: Ὀρέστεια) is a
trilogy of Gr****
tragedies written by
Aeschylus in the 5th
century BCE,
concerning the
murder of Agamemnon...
- In Gr**** mythology,
Menelaus (/ˌmɛnəˈleɪ.əs/;
Ancient Gr****: Μενέλαος Menelaos, 'wrath of the people', from
Ancient Gr**** μένος (menos) 'vigor, rage, power'...
-
Euripides and the
traditional accounts of
conflicts within the
family of the
Atreidai. Agamemnon, King of
Mycenae returned victorious from the
Trojan War, but...
-
Niobe (/ˈnaɪ.ə.biː/;
Ancient Gr****: Νιόβη [ni.óbɛː]: Nióbē) was in Gr****
mythology a
daughter of
Tantalus and of
either Dione or of
Eurythemista or Euryan****a...
