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Atreus – Mythopedia Atreus was a bloodthirsty Greek king, a son of Pelops who migrated to the Peloponnese He and his brother Thyestes destroyed one another in their long and violent feud for the throne of Mycenae
Agamemnon – Mythopedia Atreus, a son of the hero Pelops (and thus grandson of the infamous Tantalus), competed viciously with his brother Thyestes for the throne of Mycenae In some traditions, however, Agamemnon was the son not of Atreus but of Atreus’ son Pleisthenes and his wife (whose name was either Aerope, Cleolla, or Eriphyle)
Menelaus – Mythopedia Menelaus, son of Atreus, was a hero and king of Sparta When his wife Helen ran off with the Trojan prince Paris, Menelaus started the Trojan War to retrieve her
Aegisthus – Mythopedia Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes, who had long quarreled viciously with his brother Atreus Aegisthus eventually killed his uncle Atreus, as well as Atreus’ son Agamemnon, thus usurping the throne of Mycenae He also took Agamemnon’s wife Clytemnestra as his lover before being killed by Agamemnon’s son Orestes
Iliad: Book 2 (Full Text) - Mythopedia The heavenly phantom hover’d o’er my head, ‘And, dost thou sleep, O Atreus’ son? (he said) Ill fits a chief who mighty nations guides, Directs in council, and in war presides; To whom its safety a whole people owes, To waste long nights in indolent repose
Agamemnon (Play) – Mythopedia Atreus’ sons Agamemnon and Menelaus —often known collectively as the Atreids or Atreidae—soon struck back, killing Thyestes and exiling Aegisthus Agamemnon became king of Mycenae (or Argos, in Aeschylus’ version) and married the Spartan princess Clytemnestra
Loki – Mythopedia Loki was the ultimate trickster among the Norse gods, a shapeshifter whose wily deceptions sowed chaos among his people He survived the fallout of his pranks thanks to his wit and cunning
Celtic Gods – Mythopedia The Celtic gods and goddesses are a vast group of deities who were worshipped by the ancient Celtic tribes Their names and attributes varied between languages and locations, with some deities worshipped by all tribes while others were specific to a particular region or people
Tantalus – Mythopedia Tantalus was a king so beloved by the gods that they invited him to dine on Mount Olympus But he eventually offended the gods and was cast into the Underworld to suffer eternal punishment (Different sources give different versions of both the crime and the punishment )
Iliad – Mythopedia The Iliad, said to have been composed by Homer, is an epic poem that was probably originally put into writing during the middle of the eighth century BCE Set during the famous Trojan War, the poem describes the events following a quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon