Aegisthus and his father now took possession of their lawful inheritance from which they had been expelled by Atreus.

After Eurystheus ' death, the brothers Atreus and Thyestes, whom he had left in charge during his absence, took over the city, the former exiling the latter and assuming the kingship, while Tiryns returned to the overlordship of Argos.

Atreus and Thyestes, together with their mother, were banished by Pelops and took refuge in Mycenae.

Thyestes fathered Aegisthus with his own daughter, Pelopia, and this son vowed gruesome revenge on Atreus ' children.

Aegisthus successfully murdered Atreus and restored his father to the throne.

Aegisthus and Clytemnestra then ruled Agamemnon's kingdom for a time, Aegisthus claiming his right of revenge for Agamemnon's father Atreus having fed Thyestes his own children ( Thyestes then crying out " So perish all the race of Pleisthenes!

Atreus in his enmity towards his brother sent Aegisthus to kill him ; but the sword which Aegisthus carried was the cause of the recognition between Thyestes and his son, and the latter returned and slew his uncle Atreus, while he was offering a sacrifice on the seacoast.

Aegisthus and Thyestes thereafter ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus ' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives.

While Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was absent on his expedition against Troy, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and was so wicked as to offer up thanks to the gods for the success with which his criminal exertions were crowned.

Aegisthus, the son of Thyestes, killed Atreus and restored Thyestes to the throne.

After a back-and-forth struggle that featured adultery, incest and cannibalism, Thyestes gained the throne after his son Aegisthus murdered Atreus.

However, when Thyestes returns, Atreus secretly kills Thyestes ' sons, Pelopia and Aegisthus.

A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus, although not before Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Thyestes did so and the son, Aegisthus, did kill Atreus.

A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son.

Only as he entered adulthood did Thyestes reveal the truth to Aegisthus, that he was both father and grandfather to the boy and that Atreus was his uncle.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus.

A shepherd found the infant Aegisthus and gave him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son.

When he already entered adulthood, Thyestes was captured by Agamemnon and Menelaus at Delphi and brought to Atreus, who sent Aegisthus to kill him.

Aegisthus then killed Atreus and restored the kingdom to Thyestes.

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

One explanation for this discrepancy is that, after the early death of Pleisthenes, Atreus raised his grandsons, the sons of Pleisthenes, as his own sons.

Atreus, Agamemnon's father, murdered the children of his twin brother Thyestes and fed them to him after discovering Thyestes ' adultery with his wife Aerope.

Another account makes him the son of Pleisthenes ( the son or father of Atreus ), who is said to have been Aerope's first husband.

In revenge, Atreus killed Thyestes ' sons and served them to him unknowingly.

However, each becomes jealous of the other, and Thyestus tricks Atreus into electing him as the sole king.

Thyestes responded by asking an oracle what to do, who advised him to have a son by his daughter, Pelopia, who would then kill Atreus.

In vengeance for the affair, Atreus killed Thyestes ' sons and served them to him at a banquet.

Diomedes points out the folly of offering these gifts, " Most noble son of Atreus, king of men, Agamemnon, you ought not to have sued the son of Peleus nor offered him gifts.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

Although commonly referred to as " the curse of the Atreides ", the circle of atrocious events began two generations before Atreus and continued for two generations after him, before being formally absolved by the Furies in court.

Hellanikos and Thucydides write that he was killed out of jealousy by Atreus and Thyestes, his half-brothers, who cast him into a well.

He retired to Tarentum for the last years of his life, and a story is told by Aulus Gellius ( xiii. 2 ) of his being visited there by Accius on his way to Asia, who read his Atreus to him.

Offended by the deception, the gods banished Tantalus from their community to Tartarus and cursed him and his family, the House of Atreus.

The advice was to father a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, and that son would kill Atreus.

An oracle then advised Thyestes that, if he had a son with his own daughter Pelopia, that son would kill Atreus.

An oracle then advised Thyestes that, if he had a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, that son would kill Atreus.

Atreus broke a promise to Artemis, who in turn cursed his family, which was a house or lineage descended from Pelops and from Tantalus, who had fed his own son to the gods at a dinner party.

In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

The third Tantalus was a son of Thyestes, who was murdered by his uncle Atreus, and fed to his unsuspecting father.

He was the son of Atreus and Aerope, and brother of Agamemnon king of Mycenae and, according to the Iliad, leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the War.

The play tells the story of Thyestes, son of Pelops, King of Pisa, who, along with his brother Atreus, was exiled by Pelops for the murder of their half-brother, Chrysippus.

In Greek mythology, Pylades (; Greek: Πυλάδης ) is the son of King Strophius of Phocis and of Anaxibia, daughter of Atreus and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

In Greek mythology, Atreus () was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

According to most ancient sources, Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some lyric poets ( Ibycus, Bacchylides ) Plisthenides ( son of Plisthenes ) is used as an alternative name for Atreus himself.

According to the tradition followed by Sophocles in his play Ajax and by Euripides in his lost play Cretan Women ( Kressai ), Catreus found Aerope in bed with a slave and handed her over to Nauplius to be drowned, but Nauplius spared Aerope's life and she married Atreus, the son of Pelops, and king of Mycenae, though in the version of the story used by Euripides, she married Pleisthenes instead.

Their father was either Atreus or Pleisthenes, who was Atreus ' son, according to some.