He was being considered for the throne of Mycenae, but through  the duplicity of his wife, his brother Thyestes won the throne.  
He was being considered for the throne of Mycenae, but through  the duplicity of his wife, his brother Thyestes won the throne.  Uncovering their affair, he seized the throne, killed his wife, and  served Thyestes' children to him for dinner. Later, though, both  he and one of his sons would be killed by another of Thyestes'  sons, Aegisthus. FTP, name this accursed king, the son of Pelops  and father of Menelaus and Agamemnon.
He was being considered for the throne of Mycenae, but through  the duplicity of his wife, his brother Thyestes won the throne.  
{Atreus}