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Pleisthenes is the name of a son of Atreus and Aerope.

According to Hesiod, Pleisthenes married Cleolla, daughter of Dias, and is the father of Agamemnon, Menelaus, and Anaxibia.

Aeschylus also followed this tradition when he called the Atreidai " the race of Pleisthenes " ( τὸ Πλεισθένους γένος ).

According to Hyginus, Pleisthenes was raised by Atreus's brother Thyestes, accompanied Thyestes into exile, and was sent by Thyestes to kill Atreus.

Not realizing that he, rather than Thyestes, was the young man's father, Atreus killed Pleisthenes.