Aerope’s Family Tree

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Family

• Atreus(spouse),Agamemnon(child),Menelaus(child)— Marriage

  Atreus and Aerope were the parents of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Aerope's affair with Thyestes triggered the curse that devastated the House of Atreus.

Associated with

• Thyestes

  Aerope conducted an adulterous affair with Thyestes, secretly giving him Atreus's golden lamb and enabling his temporary seizure of the Mycenaean throne.