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Definition of: Atreus
(ā′trs, ā′trē·əs)
In Greek legend, the son of Pelops and father of Agamemnon and Menelaus: to avenge the treachery of his brother Thyestes, who had seduced his wife and planned to murder him, Atreus killed his brother's sons and served them to their father at a banquet.
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