Greek Tragic Families

 

I.  Mycenae:  The House of Atreus

 

 

Atreus   (fed his sons to) Thyestes

 

Menelaus     m.         Helen

Brother                     Sister

Agamemnon    m.    Clytemnestra

(lover of Aegisthus, son of Thyestes)

Murderers together of Agamemnon

 

Iphigenia (sacrificed by her father in Aulis)

Electra  (waited at home for her father)

Orestes (killed his mother as revenge for her murder of his father)

 

 

 

II.   Thebes:  Oedipus

 

Laius    m.          Jocasta

 

Oedipus         m.  Jocasta

 

Two sons

Antigone

Ismene

 

 

 

III.  Troy: The Royal Family

 

Priam   m. Hecuba

Killed          enslaved by Odysseus

 

Paris   abducted       Helen

 

Polyxena  sacrificed on Achilles’ grave


Cassandra  concubine of Agamemnon, murdered by Clytemnestra

 

Hector  m.   Andromache

Killed          Concubine of Achilles’ son

 

              Astyanax

                      thrown over cliffs of Troy and killed