1 To Pelops two sons were born, Atreus and Thyestes.

2 Atreus retook the throne and banished Thyestes.

3 When, later, Atreus discovered that Thyestes had committed adultery with Aerope, he could hardly contain his rage.

4 Kill Atreus, my son Aegisthus, and this time do not falter!

5 These were words never spoken before by any of the House of Atreus.

6 This passage in the Illiad is the first mention of the House of Atreus.

7 My paternal grandfather was The Atreides, descendant of the House of Atreus and tracing his ancestry directly back to the Greek original.

8 The king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, who was the son of Atreus and the father of Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia; His wife Clytemnestra killed him upon his return from Troy.

9 Thyestes fell back, vomiting, and laid an ineluctable curse upon the seed of Atreus.