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Thyestes, Prince of Olympia ( - )

In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, King of Olympia. He and his brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus, in their struggle for the throne of Olympia. Dictionary of National Biography entry: http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198606413.001.0001/acref-9780198606413-e-941?rskey=KCNdmm&result=1 Other biography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyestes Linked print sources: as Subject of/in a document - Thyestes.
 References in Documents:
Musaeum Clausum (1684)

14. King Mithridates his Oneirocritica. Aristotle de Precationibus. Democritus de his quæ fiunt apud Orcum, & Oceani circumnavigatio. A defence of Arnoldus de Villa Nova, whom the learned Postellus conceived to be the author of De Tribus Impostoribus. Epicurus de Pietate. A Tragedy of Thyestes, and another of Medea, writ by Diogenes the Cynick. King 199 Tract XIII. Bibliotheca Abscondita King Alfred upon Aristotle de Plantis. Seneca's Epistles to S. Paul. King Solomon de Umbris Idæarum, which Chicus Asculanus, in his Comment upon Johannes de Sacrobosco, would make us believe he saw in the Library of the Duke of Bavaria.

Musaeum Clausum (1684)

16. Draughts of three passionate Looks; of Thyestes when he was told at the Table that he had eaten a piece of his own Son; of Bajazet when he went into the Iron Cage; of Oedipus when he first came to know that he had killed his Father, and married his own Mother.