Editing Atreus (section)

==Nomenclature==
'Atreides' ({{lang|grc|Ἀτρείδης}}) is a [[patronymic]] form of Atreus which refers to one of his sons—[[Agamemnon]] or [[Menelaus]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Atreus |title=Atreus |author=((The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica)) |access-date=21 June 2018 |encyclopedia=[[Encyclopædia Britannica]] |publisher=[[Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.]]}}</ref> The plural forms, deriving from the [[Latin]] {{lang|la|Atreidae}}, itself from [[Ancient Greek]] 'Atreidai' ({{lang|grc|Ἀτρεῖδαι}}), refer to both sons collectively. 'Atreides' is commonly used to translate both the singular and plural form to English. The term can also be used for the more distant descendants of Atreus, also known as the 'House of Atreus' or the 'Atreid dynasty'. It has been suggested that the name ''[[Attarsiya]]'', belonging to an [[Ahhiyawa]]n king of 1400 BC, may be the [[Hittite language|Hittite]] rendition of the Greek name.<ref>{{cite book|last=Bryce|first=Trevor|title=The Kingdom of the Hittites|page=402|year=1999|location=Oxford|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-924010-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Agg5-lpVI2MC}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Strauss|first=Barry|title=The Trojan War: A New History|year=2007|location=New York|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-7432-6442-6|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EFYrk7VXOtMC|page=35}}</ref>