Thyestes
Role: mythological king · First appears: Book 2 · Chapter 18
In Book 2, Chapter 18, Thyestes was Atreus’s brother; the account recalls that he “seduced his brother’s wife.” Agamemnon killed Thyestes’s son Tantalus, and Atreus later slaughtered Thyestes’s children and served them to him at table.
In Book 9, Chapter 40, the sacred sceptre passed through Zeus, Hermes, Pelops, Atreus, and Thyestes before reaching Agamemnon, “from whom Agamemnon had it.”
Relationship record
Life events
- The sacred sceptre passed from Zeus through successive holders until Agamemnon possessed it.(Book 9 · Chapter 40 · 📍 Chæronea)
Book 2 · Chapter 18
- siblings with Atreus “when he seduced his brother’s wife”
- child: Tantalus (son of Thyestes) “the murder of Tantalus the son of Thyestes by Agamemnon”
- with Atreus (interaction) “Atreus could not be satisfied with the law of Tit for Tat, but slaughtered the children of Thyestes and served them up to him at table”
Book 2 · Chapter 22
- child: Tantalus (son of Thyestes) “the Tantalus who was the son of Thyestes or Broteus”
Book 9 · Chapter 40
- with Atreus (interaction) “and Atreus to Thyestes”
- with Agamemnon (interaction) “from whom Agamemnon had it.”
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Extracted from the original text of Pausanias' Description of Greece. Made with Rho MD.