Atreus and Thyestes

First of, I will write about Atreus.

 He was a king of Mycenae, he was the father of Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus. He on the other hand was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia. His descendants are known collectively as Atreidai or Atreidae. Which is basically the same word i guess, but different spelling.

 Oh. Atreus was a twin brother of Thyestes, and they where both exiled for murdering their half-brother, whos name was, Chrysippus. They killed him in their desire for the throne of Olympia. They fled to Mycenae, where they eventually became king because of the previous king, Eurystheus' absence. Eurystheus was fighting in Heracleidae, the stewardship had meant to be temporary, but became permanent when he died in battle. 

 Some sources say Atreus was the father of Plisthenes, but in some poems Plisthenides, which means son of Plisthenes, is used as an alternate name for Atreus himself.

 Thyestes, Atreus' twin, was the King of Olympia, and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. He was Atreus' wife, Aeropes, lover. When Atreus discovered the golden lamb in his flock, he gave the lamb to his wife, who in turn gave it to Thyestes. He then convinced Atreus to agree that whomever had the lamb should be king. He then produced the lamb that Aerope had given to him, and claimed the throne for himself.

 Atreus did managed to win the throne back however. He received advice from Hermes, and put it to use. He made Thyestes agree to give back the throne if the sun moved bacwards in the sky. A feat that Zeus managed to accomplish by commanding that Helios, the god of the sun, drives his golden chariot of the sun back through the sky. At least, that's what i remember.  Anyway. Once done, Atreus banished his brother.

 Atreus then learnt of Thyestes and his wife's adultery, and plotted revenge. He killed his brothers son's, and cooked them. But he saved their heads and hands, then he served Thyestes sons's to his brother, and taunted him with their heads and hands.

 Then things got messed up. Well, they were pretty messed up anyway, but this is worse.

Thyestes was advised by an oracle that if he had a son with his daughter, Pelopia, he would grow up to kill Atreus. He had a son with her, and Aegisthus, that was his name, did kill Atreus. But his son was abandoned by his mother when he was first born, she was ashamed of her incest with her father. A Shepard then found Aegisthus, and took him to Atreus, who raised him as his own son.

 I think that is good.