Atreus & Thyestes

Question 1

Who is the father of Atreus and Thyestes?

Answer 1

Pelops

Question 2

Who was the mother of Atreus and Thyestes?

Answer 2

Hippodameia

Question 3

Who was the mother of Atreus?

Answer 3

Hippodameia

Question 4

Who was the mother of Thyestes?

Answer 4

Hippodameia

Question 5

Who was the father of Atreus?

Answer 5

Pelops

Question 6

Who was the father of Thyestes?

Answer 6

Pelops

Question 7

Who was the brother of Atreus?

Answer 7

Thyestes

Question 8

Who was the brother of Thyestes?

Answer 8

Atreus

Question 9

Who did Atreus and Thyestes kill to please their mother?

Answer 9

Chrysippus (half brother)

Question 10

Who was the father of Chrysippus?

Answer 10

Pelops

Question 11

Atreus and Thyestes killed Chrysippus to please what woman?

Answer 11

Hippodameia (their mother)

Question 12

Because they killed Chrysippus, Atreus and Thyestes were banished from where?

Answer 12

Pisa

Question 13

Who was the brother in law of Atrues and Thyestes who ruled of Mycenae?

Answer 13

Sthenelaus

Question 14

Where did sthenelaus offer to let Atreus and Thyestes rule?

Answer 14

Midea

Question 15

Who was the wife of Atreus?

Answer 15

Aerope

Question 16

Who was the father of Aerope?

Answer 16

Catreus

Question 17

Who did Catreus send Aerope to, to be sold?

Answer 17

Nauplius

Question 18

Who was the king of Nauplia?

Answer 18

Nauplius

Question 19

Who were the sons of Aerope?

Answer 19

Agamemnon and Menelaus

Question 20

Who were the sons of Atreus?

Answer 20

Agamemnon and Menelaus

Question 21

Who did Aerope love more than her husband?

Answer 21

Thyestes

Question 22

What secret did Aerope tell Thyestes?

Answer 22

Atreus had once vowed to sacrifce to Artemis the finest of his flocks, but, when a lamb with a golden fleece was born, he killed it and hid the fleece in a box instead of burning it at the goddess’ altar

Question 23

After Sthenelaus and Eurystheus died, the Mycenaeans consulted an oracle and were told to elect as their new king one of the rulers of Midea, what did Thyestes suggest to help them decide?

Answer 23

the throne should be given to the one who could produce a fleece of gold

Question 24

Who suggested that the throne be given to whomever could produce a fleece of gold?

Answer 24

Thyestes

Question 25

Who was originally made king, Atreus or Thyestes?

Answer 25

Thyestes

Question 26

Who did Zeus favor, Atreus or Thyestes?

Answer 26

Atreus

Question 27

Who did Zeus send to advise Atreus?

Answer 27

Hermes

Question 28

What did Hermes advise Atreus?

Answer 28

to propose that the kingdom should belong to the man who could reverse the sun's flight and change the Pleiades course

Question 29

What was Atreus' first official act as king?

Answer 29

to banish Thyestes

Question 30

After discovering Thyestes ruse, Atreus was angry that he didn't get revenge and so he pretended to make peace with his brother and invited him to what?

Answer 30

a banquet

Question 31

Who were the children of Thyestes that Atreus murdered?

Answer 31

Aglaus, Callileon, and Orchomenus

Question 32

What did Atreus do with Thyestes children?

Answer 32

killed them and served them to Thyestes

Question 33

Who was showed the heads and hands of his children?

Answer 33

Thyestes

Question 34

What did the oracle advise Thyestes?

Answer 34

To have a child by his daughter Pelopia

Question 35

Where was Pelopia when Thyestes found her?

Answer 35

Sicyon

Question 36

When Thyestes found Pelopia, she was performing a dance to which goddess?

Answer 36

Athena

Question 37

What did Pelopia do with Thyestes sword which he left behind?

Answer 37

Hid it under the pedestal of Athena's statue

Question 38

Atreus consulted the oracle about how to end the famine caused by the death of the children, what did the oracle tell him?

Answer 38

To bring Thyestes back to Mycenae

Question 39

When searching for Thyestes, what king does Atreus come across?

Answer 39

King Thesprotus (king of Thesprotia)

Question 40

When Atreus came to Thesprotia, he saw what girl, which he thought was the king's daughter and asked for her hand?

Answer 40

Pelopia

Question 41

When Pelopia's child was born what did she do?

Answer 41

exposed it

Question 42

Pelopia's child was exposed and later found by some shepherds who gave it to what animal to be suckled?

Answer 42

a goat

Question 43

What was the name of Pelopia's child?

Answer 43

Aegisthus (for the goat)

Question 44

Who did Atreus send to Delphi to find out where Thyestes was?

Answer 44

Agamemnon and Menelaus

Question 45

Where did Atreus send Agamemnon and Menelaus to find out where Thyestes was?

Answer 45

Delphi

Question 46

When Agamemnon and Menelaus went to Delphi, who did they run into?

Answer 46

Thyestes

Question 47

When Agamemnon and Menelaus brought Thyestes back to Mycenae, what did Atreus do with him?

Answer 47

flung him into prison and sent Aegisthus to kill him

Question 48

When Aegisthus went to kill Thyestes, Thyestes recognized what object and realized that was his son?

Answer 48

the sword

Question 49

After begging to see Aegisthus' mother, Pelopia came to the cell and told the story of the sword and upon realizing he was her father, what did she do?

Answer 49

killed herself with the sword

Question 50

What did Aegisthus do with the sword after Pelopia killed herself?

Answer 50

Took it to Atreus with Peolpia's blood on it and claimed it to by Thyestes' blood

Question 51

Overjoyed, Atreus went to the shore to offer sacrifices to the gods, while there, who killed him?

Answer 51

Aegisthus

Question 52

Where was Atreus murdered?

Answer 52

the shore of Mycenae

Question 53

Who was killed on the shores of Mycenae?

Answer 53

Atreus