person
Aerope
also: the Cretan woman, Cressa
Cretan wife of Atreus who took his brother Thyestes as her lover, helping to set off the horrors of the house of Atreus.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §1.10 the Cretan woman
Aerope, Cretan wife of Atreus, who loved his brother Thyestes; the Sun recoiled from the house of Atreus.