atreidae

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Definition of atreidae

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(Greek, plural, plural-only)Collectively, the family and descendants of the mythical Mycenaean king Atreus, including either of his sons Menelaus and Agamemnon, who both feature in the Iliad.

“Yet the poet refuses to project the evil of the Atreidae so far into the past as to make the arch-offender that ancestor of Agamemnon […]”

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin Atrīdae, from Ancient Greek Ἀτρεῖδαι (Atreîdai), nominative plural of Ancient Greek Ἀτρείδης (Atreídēs). By surface analysis, Atreus + -id.

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