Atreus
Atreus in Greek legend, the son of Pelops and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. He quarrelled with his brother Thyestes and invited him to a banquet at which he served up the flesh of Thyestes' own children; the resultant curse on the house of Atreus would in time bring about the murder of his own son.
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