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  Aegisthus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Pelopia 4, who happened to lead the dancing groups during the sacrifice, slipped and stained her clothes with the blood of the slain victim.
However, Pelopia 4 drew his sword from the sheath during the ravishing, and when she returned to the temple she hid it under the statue of Athena, keeping it for the future.
Thyestes 1 was away, but Atreus, having met Pelopia 4 in the court and believing that she was Thesprotus 2's daughter, asked the king that she be given to him in marriage.
www.maicar.com /GML/Aegisthus.html   (2795 words)

  
  Pelopia
In Greek mythology, Pelopia was the daughter of Thyestes.
Thyestes had been fighting with his brother, Atreus, for the throne of Mycenae for some time, as well as having an affair with Atreus' wife, Aerope.
An oracle then advised Thyestes that, if he had a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, that son would kill Atreus.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/pe/Pelopia.html   (141 words)

  
 Aegisthus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Pelopia 4, who happened to lead the dancing groups during the sacrifice, slipped and stained her clothes with the blood of the slain victim.
However, Pelopia 4 drew his sword from the sheath during the ravishing, and when she returned to the temple she hid it under the statue of Athena, keeping it for the future.
Thyestes 1 was away, but Atreus, having met Pelopia 4 in the court and believing that she was Thesprotus 2's daughter, asked the king that she be given to him in marriage.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Aegisthus.html   (2795 words)

  
 Pelopia
Pelopia is the daughter of Thyestes and the mother of Aegisthus.
Pelopia, who was now pregnant, stayed in Threspotia, and Thyestes went to Lydia.
There, he saw the beautiful Pelopia, and asked for her to be his wife.
dante.udallas.edu /hutchison/Return_From_Troy/Oresteia/pelopia.htm   (235 words)

  
 Aegisthus - MSN Encarta
Aegisthus, in Greek mythology, the son of Thyestes and his daughter Pelopia.
Desiring to avenge himself upon his brother Atreus and acting on the advice of the oracle at Delphi, Thyestes consummated an incestuous union with Pelopia.
Shortly afterward, Atreus married Pelopia, not knowing she was his niece.
encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761567829/Aegisthus.html   (202 words)

  
 Atreus, Greek Mythology Link - www.maicar.com
Pelopia 4, who happened to lead the dancing groups during the sacrifice, slipped and stained her clothes with the blood of the slain victim; and when she went to a neighbouring stream to wash off the blood, she was raped by her own father who suddenly came out of the grove.
They then summoned Pelopia 4, who declared that she had stolen it from the unknown man who had raped her by night, the same who was Aegisthus' father.
After this bizarre family reunion, Aegisthus, bore the bloody sword to Atreus as an evidence of Thyestes 1's death; and later, while Atreus was sacrificing on the shore, Aegisthus slew him and restored his father to the throne, forcing Agamemnon and Menelaus to go into exile to the court of King Polyphides 1 of Sicyon.
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 Aegisthus - LoveToKnow 1911
Having been exposed by his mother to conceal her shame, he was found by shepherds and suckled by a goat - whence his name.
His uncle Atreus, who had married Pelopia, took him to Mycenae, and brought him up as his own son.
When he grew up Aegisthus slew Atreus, and ruled jointly with his father over Mycenae, until they were deposed by Agamemnon on his return from exile.
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 Pelopia
Pelopia and Amphithea (the wife of Adrastus), Dareios Painter Vase
In Greek mythology, Pelopia or Pelopea was the daughter of Thyestes.
Thyestes had been fighting with his brother, Atreus, for the throne of Mycenae for some time, as well as having an affair with Atreus' wife, Aerope.
www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Mythology/Pelopia.html   (226 words)

  
 Two Acts of Troy: The Tales of Aquarius, Aquila and Gemini. Chapter 3: The House of Atreus
Pelopia was Thyestes' daughter; and so to revenge his sons, Thyestes brutalized his own daughter.
In the middle of the night Pelopia was raped, but in the process she stole her unknown assailant's sword.
Without a wife, King Atreus chose his niece Pelopia as his consort and he was very happy when she gave birth to a son.
www.business-esolutions.com /starmyths/myths/troy3.htm   (2034 words)

  
 House of Pelops
Pelopia kept the sword that her father had left behind, when he had ravished her.
Atreus went to Sicyon, met and fell in love with Pelopia and unknowingly married Thyestes' daughter, who was already pregnant.
Realising that it was her father had raped her, Pelopia killed herself with the sword her son was holding.
www.timelessmyths.com /classical/pelops.html   (4035 words)

  
 Aegisthus
In Greek mythology, Aegisthus ("goat strength") was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia.
Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus.
The advice was to father a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, and that son would kill Atreus.
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 Pelopia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
King Atreus chose the process she night Pelopia was raped, but in of the stole her...
Pelopia hides the sword, Thyestes one but the statue of Athena as some kind Atreus seeks Thyestes who...
Pelopia In Greek the daughter of Pelopia or Pelopea was his brother, Thyestes.
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 Thyestes
In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops, King of Mycenae, and Hippodamia and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus.
Thyestes and his brother, Atreus, acquired the throne of Mycenae during the absence of King Eurystheus, who was fighting the Heracleidae.
This is the source of modern phrase: Thyestian Feast, or one at which human flesh is served.
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 In Greek mythology Greek mythology Pelopia or Pelopea was the daughter...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In Greek mythology Greek mythology Pelopia or Pelopea was the daughter...
In Greek mythology Greek mythology, "Pelopia" or "Pelopea" was the daughter of Thyestes Thyestes.
An oracle oracle then advised Thyestes that, if he had a son with his own daughter, Pelopia, that son would kill Atreus.
www.biodatabase.de /Pelopia   (204 words)

  
 Classical Mythology on Demodocus.com The Mycenaean Saga
The oracle advised him (possibly without his knowing her identity) that he lay with a girl who turned out to be his daughter Pelopia.
Shortly thereafter, Pelopia came to the court of a local king, with whom Atreus, by chance, also enjoyed hospitality.
Pelopia gave birth to Aegistheus, who was treated well, and became a companion of Atreus's sons by Aerope, Agamemnon and Menelaus.
www.demodocus.com /myth/sagas/mycenae.html   (1916 words)

  
 Classical Myths and Legends: The House of Atreus
Pelopia's son, AEGISTHUS, not knowing he was the son of her incest with her father
Thyestes revealed his parenthood, Pelopia killed herself in shame; and Thyestes and Aegisthus took over Mycenae, displacing the sons of Atreus, who fled to Sparta.
Earlier, LEDA, wife of King Tyndareus of Sparta, was raped by Zeus in the form of a swan.
oldweb.uwp.edu /academic/english/canary/atreus.html   (715 words)

  
 Atreus
Tantalus gave ample materials to the tragic poets of Greece, but the oftener the subjects were handled, the greater were the changes and modifications which the legends underwent; but the main points are collected in Hyginus.
Pelopia was at the time with child by her own father, and after having given birth to a boy (Aegisthus), she exposed him.
The child, however, was found by shepherds, and suckled by a goat and Atreus, on hearing of his existence, sent for him and educated him as his own child.
bulfinch.englishatheist.org /b/pantheon/Atreus.html   (734 words)

  
 Aegisthus, Greece, Greek mythology
The result of an incestuous relationship between Thyestes and his daughter Pelopia.
Pelopia married her uncle Atreus, who did not know of their relation, and he took Aegisthus as his own son.
When Aegistus later found out who he really was, he killed Atreus and soon became the lover of Queen Clytemnestra while her husband king Agamemnon was away at Troy.
www.in2greece.com /english/historymyth/mythology/names/aegisthus.htm   (153 words)

  
 Aegisthus
Subsequently he was searched after and found by Atreus, the brother of Thyestes, who had him educated as his own child, so that every body believed Aegisthus to be his son.
In the night in which Pelopia had shared the bed of her father, she had taken from him his sword which she afterwards gave to Aegisthus.
This sword became the means by which the incestuous intercourse between her and her father was discovered, whereupon she put an end to her own life.
bulfinch.englishatheist.org /b/pantheon/Aegisthus.html   (341 words)

  
 Thyatira
It stood on none of the Greek trade routes, but upon the lesser road between Pergamos and Sardis, and derived its wealth from the Lycus valley in which it rapidly became a commercial center, but never a metropolis.
The name “Thyatira” means “the castle of Thya.” Other names which it has borne are Pelopia and Semiramis.
Before the time of Nicator the place was regarded as a holy city, for there stood the temple of the ancient Lydian sun-god, Tyrimnos; about it games were held in his honor.
holycall.com /biblemaps/thyatira.htm   (934 words)

  
 ClSt 200 - Greek Tragedy   (Site not responding. Last check: )
He asked the Delphic oracle how to get revenge, and was told that he must have a child by Pelopia, his own daughter.
He did not know that she was in fact Pelopia, and she did not know who he was.
They had Pelopia summoned secretly, and as she explained what her unknown attacker had done to her, she realized that she had had intercourse with her own father, and killed herself with the sword.
www.classics.upenn.edu /myth/tragedy/atreus.php   (1103 words)

  
 The House of Atreus: Breaking Free of Family Curse and Conditioning by Tracy Marks
The Oracle told him that he must lie once with his daughter Pelopia, who would bear him a son, who would in time become his avenger.
Disguising his identity from Pelopia, he raped her, and she bore a son, Aegisthus.
Ironically, however, Atreus eventually married this same Pelopia, and along with his own sons Agamemnon and Menelaus, raised Aegisthus as his own son.
www.webwinds.com /thalassa/oresteia2.htm   (1424 words)

  
 Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, page 84   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In obedience to an oracle, Atreus goes forth to seek him, but only finds his daughter Pelopia, whom he takes to wife.
By the sword which./Egisthus carries Thyestes recognises him as his son, and proposes to him to slay Atreus.
Meanwhile Pelopia, in horror at the discovery of her sou's incestuous origin, drives the sword
www.ancientlibrary.com /seyffert/0087.html   (783 words)

  
 Aegisthus
Desiring to avenge himself upon his brother Atreus and acting on the advice of the oracle at Delphi, Thyestes consummated an incestuous union with his daughter Pelopia.
Shortly afterward, Atreus married Pelopia, not knowing she was his niece.
When Aegisthus was born, Atreus accepted him as his own son, not knowing that he had been fathered by Thyestes.
www.pantheon.org /articles/a/aegisthus.html   (142 words)

  
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 House of Arteus
Thyestes fled in horror to Sicyon; there he impregnated his own daughter Pelopia in the hope of raising one more son to avenge himself.
Atreus subsequently married Pelopia, and she afterward bore Aegisthus.
Aegisthus was sent to murder Thyestes, but each recognized the other because of the sword that Pelopia had taken from her father and given to her son.
finwake.com /1024chapter3/arteus.htm   (313 words)

  
 Hitherby Dragons: Aegisthus (IV/IV)
Tell me of Aegisthus, who stood with sword in hand in the cold wet cell where Thyestes sat enchained, and chose, not to kill, but to strike free the monster's chains and set him on Mycenae's throne.
These three leave with fanfare and with wealth, for Atreus King loves them well; but Atreus' youngest wife, Pelopia, hearing certain rumors regarding Leda's daughter Helen, walks away in silence, and few mark her departure.
I went into Athena's service, and on the night of a ceremony, a masked stranger caught and forced me and got a child on me. I took his sword as he lay sated, but found myself unable to kill---not him and not myself.
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