In Greek mythology, Thyestes (pronounced /θaɪˈɛstiːz/, Greek: Θυέστης, [tʰyéstɛːs]) was a king of Olympia. Thyestes and his brother, Atreus, were exiled...
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Thyestes is a first century AD fabula crepidata (Roman tragedy with Greek subject) of approximately 1112 lines of verse by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, which...
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Τάνταλος Tántalos) was a prince of the south of Argolis as son of King Thyestes. He was the brother of Pleisthenes. An alternative genealogy makes him...
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Thyestes was the mythical king of Olympia. Thyestes may also refer to: Thyestes (Euripides), a lost play of Euripides Thyestes (Seneca), a Roman tragedy...
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Thyestes (Ancient Greek: Θυέστης) is a lost tragedy by Euripides. The play may have concerned the myth of Thyestes' seduction of Aerope, the wife of his...
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Thyestes is an extinct genus of osteostracan agnathan vertebrate of Europe whose fossils are found in Middle to Late Ludlow-aged marine strata of Late...
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Atreus (section Atreus and Thyestes)
descendants are known as Atreidai or Atreidae. Atreus and his twin brother Thyestes were exiled by their father for murdering their half-brother Chrysippus...
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Thyestes, A Tragedy is a 1680 tragedy by the English writer John Crowne. It was originally staged by the King's Company at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane...
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Πελόπεια), less commonly known as Mnesiphane, was the daughter of Thyestes. Thyestes had been fighting with his brother, Atreus, for the throne of Mycenae...
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sons of his twin brother Thyestes and fed them to Thyestes after discovering Thyestes' adultery with his wife Aerope. Thyestes fathered Aegisthus with...
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Mount Thyestes is a 1,697-metre (5,568-foot) mountain summit located in the Tantalus Range, in Tantalus Provincial Park, in southwestern British Columbia...
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Pleisthenes (redirect from Pleisthenes (son of Thyestes))
his brother Tantalus, were the infant sons of Thyestes and Aerope, who Atreus killed and served to Thyestes at a banquet. Pleisthenes, the son of Menealus...
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Isanthrene thyestes is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1883. It is found in Ecuador. Savela, Markku (January 4...
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2018, he was invited to open the festival with a production of Seneca's Thyeste. In January 2020, he was named director of the national theatre of the...
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Crébillon's play Atrée et Thyeste that implies he took the original: Un dessein si funeste, / S'il n'est digne d'Atrée, est digne de Thyeste ("If such a sinister...
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although his character remains offstage. Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes and Thyestes's own daughter Pelopia, an incestuous union motivated by his father's...
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and the audience, particularly in terms of moral evaluation. In Seneca's Thyestes, the chorus details the offstage events of the play in gruesome detail...
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Pittheus (or his mother was Dia), Troezen, Alcathous, Dimoetes, Atreus, Thyestes, Copreus, Hippalcimus (Hippalcus, Hippalcmus), Sciron, Sicyon, Epidaurus...
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the election of Thyestes should be reversed. The argument was heeded, and Atreus became king. His first move was to pursue Thyestes and all his family...
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Stoicism. As a tragedian, he is best known for plays such as his Medea, Thyestes, and Phaedra. Seneca had an immense influence on later generations—during...
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his brother Thyestes over the throne of Mycenae. After a back-and-forth struggle that featured adultery, incest, and cannibalism, Thyestes gained the throne...
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The Thyestes Chase is a National Hunt handicap steeplechase run in Ireland. It takes place at Gowran Park, Gowran, County Kilkenny in January, over a distance...
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Harvard University Press. Seneca, Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia. Edited and translated by John G. Fitch. Loeb...
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While the wife of Atreus, she became the lover of his brother Thyestes, and gave Thyestes the golden lamb that allowed him to become king of Mycenae. Aerope's...
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who invited his brother Thyestes to dine on a delicious stew, which had been prepared with the butchered flesh of Thyestes’s own sons. As a result, a...
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November 1985) Cottlesloe Theatre Thyestes (June 1994) Manchester Green Room, and Royal Court Theatre - As Thyestes The Murderers (1985) Cottesloe Theatre...
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Seneca, Hercules on Oeta in Tragedies, Volume II: Oedipus. Agamemnon. Thyestes. Hercules on Oeta. Octavia, edited and translated by John G. Fitch, Loeb...
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on the stage. In 1705 he succeeded with Idoménée; in 1707 his Atrée et Thyeste was repeatedly acted at court; Electre appeared in 1709; and in 1711 he...
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List of minor planets: 14001–15000 (redirect from 14792 Thyestes)
Atreus September 19, 1973 Palomar PLS L4 22 km MPC · JPL 14792 Thyestes 1973 SG1 Thyestes September 24, 1973 Palomar PLS L4 19 km MPC · JPL 14793 1975 SE2...
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and her subsequent rape and forced marriage). Aegisthus saw his father Thyestes betrayed by Agamemnon's father Atreus (Aegisthus was conceived specifically...
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