Editing Aerope (section)

===In Mycenae===
From Crete, Aerope was taken to [[Mycenaean Greece|Mycenae]]. There, while the wife of Atreus, she became the lover of Atreus' twin brother [[Thyestes]], involving herself in the brothers' power struggle for the kingship of Mycenae.<ref>Gantz, pp. 545&ndash; 556. For Aerope as lover of Thyestes, see Gantz, pp. 546&ndash;547; [[Aeschylus]], [[Agamemnon (play)|''Agamemnon'']] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Aesch.+Ag.+1191 1191&ndash;1193]; Euripides, ''[[Electra (Euripides play)|Electra]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Eur.+El.+719 719&ndash;720], ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Eur.%20Orest.%201009 1009&ndash;1010]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.Epit+E.2.10 E.2.10]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#86 86]; [[Ovid]], ''[[Ars Amatoria]]'' [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-art_love/1929/pb_LCL232.35.xml 1.327&ndash;330], [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/ovid-art_love/1929/pb_LCL232.37.xml 1.341&ndash;342]. A small "correction" of the text would make [[Sophocles]], [[Ajax (play)|''Ajax'']] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Soph.+Aj.+1295 1295&ndash;1297] a reference to the adultery of Aerope with Thyestes, see Gantz, pp. 554&ndash; 555.</ref>

Atreus and Thyestes were the sons of [[Pelops]] and [[Hippodamia (daughter of Oenomaus)|Hippodamia]], king and queen of [[Pisa, Greece|Pisa]].<ref>Gantz, pp. 543&ndash;544. For Apollodorus' account of their story see [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.Epit+E.2.10 E.2.10&ndash;12].</ref>  Their desire for their father's throne led to the murder of their half-brother [[Chrysippus (mythology)|Chrysippus]], for which they were banished, and sought refuge in Mycenae.<ref>Gantz, pp. 489, 544&ndash;545; [[Thucydides]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0105%3Abook%3D1%3Achapter%3D9 1.9]; [[Plato]], ''[[Cratylus (dialogue)|Cratylus]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=86AA2DB30BF3E6B6739755831DCDA974?doc=Plat.+Crat.+395b 395b]; [[Gaius Julius Hyginus|Hyginus]], ''[[Fabulae]]'' [https://topostext.org/work/206#85 85].</ref> According to Hyginus, the brothers were encouraged to commit the act by their mother Hippodamia, who killed herself upon being accused of doing so.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hyginus |editor-last=Grant |editor-first=Mary |title=Fabulae |url=https://topostext.org/work/206#243 |access-date=2024-09-20 |website= |page=243 |language=en}}</ref> When the [[Perseid dynasty|Perseid]] dynasty came to an end, the Myceneans received a prophesy saying they should choose a son of Pelops as their king. Aerope stole the golden lamb (a portent linked to the kingship of Mycenae) from her husband Atreus and gave it to Thyestes, so that the Myceneans would choose Thyestes as their king.<ref>Gantz, p. 547; Hard, [https://books.google.com/books?id=r1Y3xZWVlnIC&pg=PA506 p. 506]; [[Euripides]], ''[[Electra (Euripides play)|Electra]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Eur.+El.+699 699&ndash;725], ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Eur.%20Orest.%20810 810 ff.], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Eur.%20Orest.%20995 995 ff.]; [[Plato]], [[Statesman (dialogue)|''Statesman'']] [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0172:text=Stat.:section=268e 268e]; [[Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus)|Apollodorus]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.Epit+E.2.10 E.2.10&ndash;11]; [[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Paus.+2.18.1 2.18.1]. The golden lamb was perhaps included in Sophocles' ''Atreus'', and Euripides' ''Cretan Women'', see Gantz, p. 546, and, regarding ''Cretan Women'', Webster, p. 38. For a discussion of the golden lamb, with many other sources, see Frazer's note to Apollodorus, [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Apollod.Epit+E.2.12 E.2.12].</ref>

From Byzantine period annotations to Euripides' ''Orestes,'' we learn that, in some unspecified Sophocles work, Atreus cast Aerope into the sea in revenge for her adultery and theft of the golden lamb.<ref>Byzantine scholia at ''Orestes'' line 812, see Gantz, pp. 548, 555 and Jebb's note to ''Ajax'' [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0024:text=comm:commline=1296 1296 '''ὁ φιτύσας πατήρ'''].</ref>