Definitions for Thyestes

Thyestes Thy·es·tes

Spelling: [thahy-es-teez]
IPA: /θaɪˈɛs tiz/

Thyestes is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 110 anagrams from letters in Thyestes (eehsstty).

Definitions for Thyestes

noun

  1. the brother of Atreus who unknowingly ate the flesh of his own sons when served to him by Atreus.

Examples for Thyestes

According to Quintilian, his Thyestes was equal to any composition of the Greek tragic poets.

Crowne too was a poet, as is evident from Thyestes, in spite of repulsiveness and rant.

Thou knowest the strife that took place between Atreus and Thyestes?

You have heard what happened in the quarrel of Atreus and Thyestes?

The "Thyestes" of Varius was regarded in its day as equal to Greek tragedies.

Atreus, to revenge himself of his unnatural brother, killed the sons of Thyestes, and invited him to eat them.

She points to phantoms which the Chorus cannot see, the ghosts of the children of Thyestes.

The vaticinations of Cassandra opened a terrific vista of the horrors accumulated upon the family of Thyestes.

The tragical distractions of Tereus and Thyestes are nonsense to us.

His wife Arope was seduced by Thyestes, who was driven from Mycenae.

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