| 21. | Thyestes'brother and King of Mycenae, Atreus, vowed to sacrifice his best lamb to Artemis.
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| 22. | While Thyestes ruled Mycenae, the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus, were exiled to Sparta.
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| 23. | He used the Spartan army to drive out Aegisthus and Thyestes from Mycenae and place Agamemnon on the throne.
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| 24. | He asks Thyestes to return to Mycenae with his family, telling him that all past animosities are forgotten.
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| 25. | As Pelopia had been impregnated by her father Thyestes, she soon gave birth to Aegisthus and abandoned him.
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| 26. | However, each becomes jealous of the other, and Thyestes tricks Atreus into electing him as the sole king.
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| 27. | He tricked Thyestes into eating the flesh of his own sons and then taunted him with their hands and feet.
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| 28. | This is why they were unaware of Atreus'true plans to trick Thyestes and feed him his own children.
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| 29. | Not realizing that he, rather than Thyestes, was the young man's father, Atreus killed Pleisthenes.
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| 30. | First, Orestes recounts how Iphigenia embroidered the scene of the quarrel between Atreus and Thyestes on a fine web.
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