Atreus
Family: Achaeans · Role: father of Agamemnon and Menelaus · First appears: BOOK I
🌐 Also appears in: Greek Mythology — A Family Orrery (as Atreus) · The Odyssey (as Atreus) · Greek Tragedy — The Same Myth, Three Voices (as Atreus)
In Book I, Atreus is identified as the father of Agamemnon, “the son of Atreus, king of men.” In Book III, Menelaus is also identified as his child.
Relationship record
BOOK I
- child: Agamemnon “the son of Atreus, king of men”
BOOK II
- child: Agamemnon “It sought Agamemnon son of Atreus and found him in his tent, wrapped in a profound slumber.”
BOOK III
- child: Agamemnon “And Helen answered, “He is Ulysses, a man of great craft, son of Laertes.”
- child: Menelaus “Menelaus of the loud battle-cry addressed them.”
BOOK VII
- child: Agamemnon “the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus”
- child: Menelaus “the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus”
BOOK VIII
- child: Agamemnon “Agamemnon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus”
- child: Menelaus “Agamemnon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus”
BOOK IX
- child: Agamemnon “the son of Atreus in dismay bade the heralds call the people”
BOOK X
BOOK XIX
- child: Agamemnon “Son of Atreus, surely it would have been better alike for both you and me”
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Extracted from the original text of The Iliad. Made with Rho MD.