Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A king of Mycenae who unknowingly ate the flesh of his own sons, served to him by his brother Atreus, as revenge for seducing his wife and usurping the throne.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An extinct genus of fishes belonging to the subclass Ostracodermi, of the family Cephalaspidæ, characterized by the presence of three or four series of dorsolateral scales fused into a continuous plate behind the headshield. The body is depressed, and ovoid in cross-section. From the Upper Silurian and Lower Old Red Sandstone.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This was followed up by the commendation of Varius, already celebrated as a writer of Epic poetry, and whose tragedy of "Thyestes," if we are to trust
Horace Theodore Martin 1862
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Former JMK award-winner Polly Findlay has done some fine, often edgy work with shows such as the scorching Thyestes at the Arcola Theatre and a coolly confident production of Penelope Skinner's Eigengrau at the Bush.
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He it was that begat Pelops, the father of Atreus, for whom the goddess, when she had carded her wool, spun a web of strife, even to the making of war with his own brother Thyestes.
Orestes 2008
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Well, Atreus slew Thyestes 'children and feasted him on them; but, - passing over intermediate events-from Atreus and Aerope of
Orestes 2008
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He it was that begat Pelops, the father of Atreus, for whom the goddess, when she had carded her wool, spun a web of strife, even to the making of war with his own brother Thyestes.
Orestes 2008
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I fain would learn the way and means my brother took to slay Thyestes 'son.
Electra 2008
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I fain would learn the way and means my brother took to slay Thyestes 'son.
Electra 2008
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Well, Atreus slew Thyestes 'children and feasted him on them; but, - passing over intermediate events-from Atreus and Aerope of
Orestes 2008
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Greek tragedy treated of far more horrible and revolting themes, such as the banquet of Thyestes: and Dante did not shrink from describing the unnatural meal of Ugolino.
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Tragical examples are too common in this kind, both new and old, in all ages, as of [6158] Cephalus and Procris, [6159] Phaereus of Egypt, Tereus, Atreus, and Thyestes.
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