in fabulous history, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus, is supposed to have been king of Mycenae and Argos about 1228 years before the Christian era. He drove his brother Thyestes from court, for having a criminal commerce with Europe his wife: but understanding that he had had two children by her, he sent for him again, and made him eat them; at which horrid action, the sun, it is said, withdrew his light.