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What does Thyestes mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) A king of Olympia; the son of Pelops and Hippodamia; and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. He and his brother Atreus were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother Chrysippus.
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His wife Arope was seduced by Thyestes, who was driven from Mycenae.
She points to phantoms which the Chorus cannot see, the ghosts of the children of Thyestes.
Sent off the 11-10 favourite after finishing second in the Thyestes Chase, The Midnight Club moved powerfully for Paul Townend and was bang there heading to the final fence.
He then expelled Thyestes from Argos and the man lived the rest of his days in exile, unavenged.
Atreus, to revenge himself of his unnatural brother, killed the sons of Thyestes, and invited him to eat them.
Crowne too was a poet, as is evident from Thyestes, in spite of repulsiveness and rant.

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