''Thyestes'' ( grc, Θυέστης) is a lost tragedy by
Euripides
Euripides (; grc, Εὐριπίδης, Eurīpídēs, ; ) was a tragedian
Tragedy (from the grc-gre, τραγῳδία, ''tragōidia'', ''tragōidia'') is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful e ...
. The play may have concerned the myth of
Thyestes
In Greek mythology, Thyestes (pronounced , gr, Θυέστης, ) was a king of Olympia. Thyestes and his brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus, in their desire for the throne of Olym ...
' seduction of
Aerope
In Greek mythology, Aerope (Ancient Greek: Ἀερόπη) was a Cretan princess as the daughter of Catreus, king of Crete. She was the sister to Clymene, Apemosyne and Althaemenes. Aerope's father Catreus gave her to Nauplius, to be drowned, or ...
, the wife of his brother
Atreus
In Greek mythology, Atreus ( , ; from ἀ-, "no" and τρέω, "tremble", "fearless", gr, Ἀτρεύς ) was a king of Mycenae in the Peloponnese, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Collectively, hi ...
, and Atreus' subsequent revenge on Thyestes, killing his children and serving them to him at a feast.
References
External links
Fragmenta
Further reading
* ''Euripides: Fragments'' edd. Christopher Collard, Martin Cropp (Cantabrigiae
ass. Harvard University Press, 2008) vol. 1 pp. 428-437 (''
Loeb Classical Library
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; , ) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but is currently published by Harvard University Press. The library contains important works of ancient Greek and L ...
'')
* ''
Tragicorum Graecorum fragmenta''. 2a ed., vol. 5: ''Euripides'' ed. E. C. Kopff. Goettingae 2004.
Plays by Euripides
Lost plays
Plays based on classical mythology
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