Mnemosyne — Classical Greek Myth Library

Stories (3)

• Atreus and Thyestes: The Golden Lamb and the Adultery
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean succession · Apollodorean / tragic (golden lamb; Aerope’s adultery; exile)
• Atreus and Thyestes: The Banquet of Thyestes’ Children
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean feud · Apollodorean / Aeschylean (feast; recognition; curse)
• Birth of Aegisthus: Thyestes and Pelopia
  Heroes — Tantalid / Mycenaean; prelude to Agamemnon’s murder · Apollodorean / Hyginus (oracle; night rape; sword-token; recognition)

Places appearing with them

• Atreus’s flocks
• Mycenae
• Place of exile
• Sicyon
• Table of Thyestes

Themes

• Abduction
• Birth
• Contest
• Exile
• Marriage
• Prophecy
• Revenge
• Succession
• Theft
• War