can anyone tell me about the house of atreus??

Question

can you summarise all you know in a few paragraphs? about their history, or mythological stories about this family? i know agammemnon was from the house of atreus. i think...

Answer 1

Talk about one unlucky family! For generations these god-defying descendents of Tantalus committed crimes of horror, that cried out for revenge, brother against brother,father against son, father against daughter and son against mother.
It all began with Tantalus, (whose word by the way was preserved in English to tantalize) which describes the punishment he suffered in the "underworld". who served his son Pelops as a meal to the gods to test their omniscience. Demeter alone failed the test and so, when Pelops was restored to life, he had to make do with an ivory shoulder. The sister of Pelops happens to have been Niobe who was turned into a weeping rock when her hubris led to the death of 14 of her children. Now, when it came time for Pelops to marry, he chose Hippodamia, the daughter of Oenomaus, king of Pisa. Unfortunately the king wanted his daughter for his own purposes of "Lust" and tried to kill all of the men that were her suitors during a "fixed" race.Pelops had to win this certain race so he could marry Hippodamia in which he did by loosening the lynchpins in Oenomaus's chariot.There by killing his own soon to be "father inlaw"...Imagine that!,,lol Now the story doesn't end here...
Now Pelops and Hippodamia had two sons and one illegitimate son of Pelops in which the two sons Thyestes and Atreus killed for their mother Hippodamia to please her. Now both of her son's fled in exile because of what they did to their brother. They fled to Mycenae, where their brother inlaw held the throne. When he died Atreus took over the kingdom and the throne.. BUT Thyestes seduced Atreus's wife Aerope and stole the "golden fleece" so Thyestes went into exile again. "What comes around goes around I always say"...lol
Now this is the generation where your Agamemnon comes in.Atreus had two sons, Menelaus and Agamemnon, who married the famous "Spartan sisters". Helen (of Troy) and Clytemnestra.Helen was captured by Paris (or left willingly) which started the Trojan War.
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Answer 2

Son of Pelops and Hippodamia; brother of Thyestes, Chrysippus, Troezen, and Pittheus. Father of Agamemnon and Menelaus by Aerope. Shocked the gods by feeding Thyestes his own child. Tantalus, the son of Zeus, was the founder of this foredoomed family, followed by Pelops, Atreus and Thyestes, Agamemnon and Menelaus, Clytemnestra, Helen, Pelopia, Aegisthus, Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia. The tragic story of the house of Atreus has been a poetic gold mine for thousands of years. Eight of thirty-three surviving Greek tragedies deal with this family: Aeschylus, Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides; Euripides, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia among the Tauri, Orestes; Sophocles, Electra. Seneca, Agamemnon, Thyestes; Alfieri, Agamemnon, Orestes; Goethe, Iphigenie auf Tauris; Milton, "Pelop's Line"; O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra; Chaucer, Shakespeare, Rossetti, T. S. Eliot, Jeffers, Crebillon, Giraudoux, Gluck, Hofmannsthal, Racine, Sartre, Voltaire, and many others have made use of this story.

Excerpt from Zimmerman

Answer 3

after their father's loss of life, atreus' sons agememnon and menelaus took secure haven in sikyon. at some later date, tyndareus, father of castor and pollus, clytemnesra and helen, helped agamemnon to regain the trong which replaced into his by ability of wonderful. thyestes who reigned throughout the time of that era and his son aegisthus have been exiled and agamemnon took clymnestra as his spouse - after she had first killed tantalus, her first husband, who replaced into additionally a son of thyestes. agamemnon and clytemnestra had 3 daughters - ipheigenia, electra, and chrysothemis - and one son, orestes. menelaus married the attractive helen and ruled sparta.

Answer 4

Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter, it pissed a couple of the gods off, the family was cursed, ended w/ Oudipus who(unknowingly) married his mother, he found out, commited suicide, she found out, commited suicide, their children fought among each other for the throne, and everyone died, curse fulfilled.