thyestes family tree Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/thyestes-family-tree Sat, 21 Oct 2017 19:10:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Atreus, Thyestes & a Bloody Banquet http://travelsfinders.com/atreus-thyestes-a-bloody-banquet.html http://travelsfinders.com/atreus-thyestes-a-bloody-banquet.html#respond Mon, 13 Nov 2017 23:39:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=244911 The brothers were bitter rivals. When the elder, Atreus, was appointed king, Thyestes seduced his wife, Aerope, and plotted revolution. After Atreus vowed to dedicate his finest animal to Artemis, his shepherds discovered a miraculous horned lamb, resplendent with a golden fleece, clearly a gift from the gods. Sacrificing it as pledged, Atreus kept the fleece for himself. But his announcement that its ownership proved his right to rule backfired when Aerope stole the fleece and gave it to Thyestes, who triumphantly seized the kingdom Zeus, displeased, advised Atreus to challenge Thyestes: if the sun reversed its course, would Thyestes

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