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In vengeance for the affair, Atreus killed Thyestes ' sons and served them to him at a banquet.
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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.
Thyestes fathered Aegisthus with his own daughter, Pelopia, and this son vowed gruesome revenge on Atreus ' children.
Aegisthus took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with Thyestes.
Menelaus succeeded Tyndareus in Sparta, while Agamemnon, with his brother's assistance, drove out Aegisthus and Thyestes to recover his father's kingdom.
Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, had taken Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, as a lover.
In Greek mythology, Aegisthus ( ; also transliterated as Aegisthos ) was the son of Thyestes and of Thyestes ' daughter, Pelopia.
Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus.
In addition, Thyestes had an affair with Atreus ' wife, Aerope.
In revenge, Atreus killed Thyestes ' sons and served them to him unknowingly.
After eating his own sons ' corpses, Thyestes asked an oracle how best to gain revenge.
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.
Homer appears to know nothing of all these tragic occurrences, and we learn from him only that, after the death of Thyestes, Aegisthus ruled as king at Mycenae and took no part in the Trojan expedition.
A number of stories in Greek mythology involve cannibalism, in particular cannibalism of close family members, for example the stories of Thyestes, Tereus and especially Cronus, who was Saturn in the Roman pantheon.
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.
Many of the Greek wives were persuaded to betray their husbands, most significantly Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, who was seduced by Aegisthus, son of Thyestes.
His wife Clytemnestra ( Helen's sister ) was having an affair with Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, Agamemnon's cousin who had conquered Argos before Agamemnon himself retook it.
The two contenders were Atreus and his brother, Thyestes.
Atreus argued that because the sun had reversed its path, the election of Thyestes should be reversed.
His first move was to pursue Thyestes and all his family-that is, his own kin-but Thyestes managed to escape from Mycenae.
Aegisthus, the son of Thyestes, killed Atreus and restored Thyestes to the throne.
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Once released, he swore vengeance against the Lithuanians.
The populace swore vengeance.
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As the others rushed forward to save Sun Quan, the possessed Lü Meng swore vengeance before collapsing onto the floor and dying moments later.
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As a result, some historians state that Blood swore vengeance against the Duke.
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As a result, Komand ' r was expelled and she swore vengeance.
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Upon Nagash's first return from death, the Tomb Kings revolted against him, and swore vengeance upon his head and upon any of his followers.
After Stacy was murdered by the original Green Goblin, Warren swore vengeance on Spider-Man, falsely believing it was the superhero who caused her death, not realizing that the Green Goblin had the motives to kill her.
The Cossacks, ravaging the environs of Moscow, acknowledged him as Tsar on March 2, 1612, and under threat of vengeance in case of non-compliance, the gentry of Pskov also " kissed the cross " ( i. e., swore allegiance ) to the thief of Pskov, as he was usually nicknamed.
The raped priestesses that conceive children kill all of the girl children but leave the boys alive that are born and then kill themselves rather than live with the atrocities done to them ; the males later became a rebel group known as the Ravens, which swore vengeance against Rome.
Their children swore vengeance and attacked Thebes.
His fellow knights Georg von Frundsberg and Franz von Sickingen successfully argued for his release in 1522, but only after he paid a ransom of 2, 000 gulden and swore not to take vengeance on the League.
Humiliated by her own transgression Komand ' r swore vengeance and joined the Citadel, quickly rising through their ranks to become a warrior fighting against the forces of her own planet and, ultimately, her own family.
While Amaury was not in Viterbo, and was not involved in the murder, Edward swore vengeance upon all of Simon de Montfort's sons, Amaury included.
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