Atreidaeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

固有名詞

the Atreidae pl (plural only)

1. (Greek mythology) 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.
   • 1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “VI. Orestea. I: Agamemnon”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 159:

     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 […]

関連する語

• Atreid