Chapter 17: The House of Atreus: Intro

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Chapter 17 The House of Atreus Intro Tantalus
and Niobe

• By Elizabeth Nelson and Alex Rojas

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Intro

• The House of
• Atreus is a
• famous family
• in Mythology

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Intro

• The importance of this story
• is that Aeschylus, a poet,
• used
• this for his great drama,
• the Orestia.

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• Agamemnon-
• led the
• Greeks
• against Troy.

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• His wifes name was Clymnestra and their children
  were Iphgenia, Orestes, and Electra.

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Intro

• His brother, Menelaus,
• was the husband
• of Helen (The Trojan War)

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Intro

• The House of Atreus had bad luck because an
  ancestor did a wicked deed and ever since then
  his descendants did wickedly and were punished. A
  curse hung over the family.

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Tantalus and Niobe

• Tantalus was the son of Zeus.

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• He was honored by all gods beyond mortal children
  of Z.

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• He had only one son named Pelops.
• He killed Pelops and
• served him to the
• gods for a meal.

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• He wanted to
• shock the
• gods by
• making
• them cannibals.

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• The gods became angry
• and set him in a pool
• in Hades where he
• would forever be
• tormented.

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• Pelops was restored to life by the gods.

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• P decided to
• marry the
• Princess
• Hippodamia.

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• Many men died because her father challenged the
  men who loved her to race on a horse for her.
• If they won, she was theirs. If they lost, their
  life was taken.

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• Pelops won the race against her father.
• This is because Hippodamia helped him by
  loosening the bolts in her fathers carriage.
  Myrtilus helped her with this.

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• Later on, Pelops killed Myrtilus.

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• Niobe was
• Tantalus daughter.
• Amphion, a great musician
• and brother of Zeus,
• was her husband.

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• Amphion and his brother named Zethus built a
  great wall around Thebes, a city where they lived.

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• Amphion and Niobe had seven sons and seven
  daughters.

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• N wanted the people of Thebes to worship her
  instead of Leto, another goddess.

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• Letos two children, Apollo ans Artemis, killed
  all 14 of Ns children.

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• N watched this take
• place and turned
• into a stone
• forever.

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• Pelops had 2 sons, Atreus and Thyestes.

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• Thyestes fell in love with Atreus wife, and A
  found out.

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• Atreus killed and cut up Thyestes children and
  them served them to their father.

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• Atreus was
• a king

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• Thyestes had
• no power.

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• For the rest of generations, Thyestes childrens
  children and so forth suffered because of this.

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• THE END