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 Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, was a general and hero who led the Greek army to victory in the Trojan War He was later murdered by his wife Clytemnestra
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
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
Iliad: Book 1 (Full Text) - Mythopedia The priest of Phoebus sought by gifts to gain His beauteous daughter from the victor’s chain; The fleet he reach’d, and, lowly bending down, Held forth the sceptre and the laurel crown, Intreating all; but chief implored for grace The brother-kings of Atreus’ royal race: The generous Greeks their joint consent declare, The priest to
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
Royal Names - Mythopedia Royal names and their royal origins Make way for the king and queen! The “royal family” are the characters at the top of the heap—which means they’ll need names denoting their aristocratic lineage and exceptional status in your world’s social hierarchy In tabletop games, fiction, and mythology, royal characters have a history going back to chess, the Middle Ages, and even beyond
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
Odyssey: Book 4 (Full Text) - Mythopedia ‘Say, son of Atreus, say what god inspired This daring fraud, and what the boon desired?’ I thus: ‘O thou, whose certain eye foresees The fix’d event of fate’s remote decrees; After long woes, and various toil endured, Still on this desert isle my fleet is moor’d, Unfriended of the gales All-knowing, say,