Atreus (A`treus) , a son of Pelops and king of Mycenæ, who, to avenge a wrong done him by his brother Thyestes, killed his two sons, and served them up in a banquet to him, for which act, as tradition shows, his descendants had to pay heavy penalties.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Atra`to * Atri`des