person
Thyestes
Brother of Atreus whose adultery and the ensuing cannibal feast brought the curse on their house; the Sun recoiled in horror.
Reading notes
- The Art of Love §1.10 Thyestean love
Thyestes, brother of Atreus, whose adultery with Aerope helped trigger the curse on their house.
- Letters from the Black Sea §4.6 the Thyestean banquet
Thyestes, served his own sons' flesh by Atreus, at which the Sun is said to have recoiled and reversed his course; an adynaton for the impossible — sooner that than Ovid prove ungrateful.
- Ibis §11 Pelopea was to Thyestes
Thyestes, who unknowingly fathered Aegisthus on his own daughter Pelopea — the incest wished on the enemy's daughter.
- Ibis §17 son of Harpagus
Harpagus, whose son was served to him by Astyages, as Thyestes was fed his own children by Atreus.