Atreus

First appears: Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 2

Atreus was Eurystheus’s mother’s brother. Before setting out on his expedition, Eurystheus entrusted Mycenæ and its government to him. As time went on and Eurystheus did not return, Atreus assumed the sceptre of Mycenæ and his other dominions.

Relationship record

Life events

• Eurystheus entrusted Mycenæ and its government to Atreus before setting out on his expedition.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 2 · 📍 Mycenæ)
  • With: Eurystheus
  • “Atreus was his mother’s brother; and to the hands of his relation, who had left his father on account of the death of Chrysippus, Eurystheus, when he set out on his expedition, had committed Mycenæ and the government.”
• Atreus assumed the sceptre of Mycenæ and Eurystheus’s other dominions.(Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 2 · 📍 Mycenæ)
  • “And so the power of the descendants of Pelops came to be greater than that of the descendants of Perseus.”

Book 1 · Chapter 1 · Part 2

• younger kin: Eurystheus “Atreus was his mother’s brother; and to the hands of his relation, who had left his father on account of the death of Chrysippus, Eurystheus, when he set out on his expedition, had committed Mycenæ and the government.”
• with Eurystheus (Eurystheus entrusted Mycenæ and its government to Atreus.) “Atreus was his mother’s brother; and to the hands of his relation, who had left his father on account of the death of Chrysippus, Eurystheus, when he set out on his expedition, had committed Mycenæ and the government.”

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Extracted from the original text of History of the Peloponnesian War. Made with Rho MD.