This man travels to Lake Avernus to get the protection of King Thesprotus. Hyginus recounts how this man is seized at Delphi and thrown into prison to await his death, until he recognizes the sword his would-be killer is holding. This man is tricked into giving up his throne when Zeus makes the sun move backwards in the sky. A literary work titled for him opens with a Fury summoning the shade of his grandfather Tantalus. (*) Seneca wrote a play about this man, who conspires with Aerope to seize the throne from his brother. He rapes his daughter Pelopia to seek revenge against a man who presented him with a platter bearing some severed hands and heads. For 10 points, name this father of Aegisthus whose sons were killed and served to him in a
This man travels to Lake Avernus to get the protection of King Thesprotus. Hyginus recounts how this man is seized at Delphi and thrown into prison to await his death, until he recognizes the sword his would-be killer is holding. This man is tricked into giving up his throne when Zeus makes the sun move backwards in the sky. A literary work titled for him opens with a Fury summoning the shade of his grandfather Tantalus. (*) Seneca wrote a play about this man, who conspires with Aerope to seize the throne from his brother. He rapes his daughter Pelopia to seek revenge against a man who presented him with a platter bearing some severed hands and heads. For 10 points, name this father of Aegisthus whose sons were killed and served to him in a feast by his brother Atreus.
This man travels to Lake Avernus to get the protection of King Thesprotus.
Thyestes