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Yea, jealous wrath creeps on against th 'Atrides' name.
The House of Atreus 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1880
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With Les Atrides (The House of Atreus, 1990 – 1993), Mnouchkine began a new cycle based on the Greek model and, presenting a return to the ancient roots of theater.
Ariane Mnouchkine. 2009
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La tragédie grecque: Les Atrides au Théâtre du Soleil.
Ariane Mnouchkine. 2009
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In three days a terrible drama would begin, a bourgeois tragedy, without poison, or dagger, or the spilling of blood; but — as regards the actors in it — more cruel than all the fabled horrors in the family of the Atrides.
Eug�nie Grandet 2007
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On either side of the door through which one stepped into the gallery, stood a huge stone monster, like those of Atrides; and as
Herodias 2003
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On the same flat area near Achilles, to the right of Odysseus and the Atrides but standing apart, are Mahnmut, Orphu, and Hockenberry.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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The guards lead me to an Achilles dressing for combat, surrounded by the chieftains he has inherited from Agamemnon — Odysseus, Diomedes, old Nestor, the Big and Little Ajaxes — the usual crew except for the Atrides, Agamemnon and Menelaus.
Ilium Simmons, Dan 1981
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Atrides and of Cadmus, but here we find him singing only of Love.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 23, September, 1859 Various
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Atrides, rejoicing go thou to the land of the Phrygians, and rejoicing return, having obtained for me most glorious spoils from Troy.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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O wretched Helen, through thee and thy nuptials there is come a contest for the Atrides and their children.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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