The House of Atreus is a tragic story that is a part of the Greek Mythology. It is included, the second chapter of the fifth part, on the book ‘Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes’ written by Edith Hamilton which was published around 1942. The book is a compilation of all the tales in Ancient Greece. So basically, Edith Hamilton is not the original author but a collector and an interpreter of Greek Mythology. Through the book, Hamilton retells the tales of Ancient Greece in third person omniscient. The members of The House of Atreus are Agamemnon, his spouse Clytemnestra, his offspring Iphigenia, Orestes, and Electra, and his brother Menelaus. Their ancestor is Tantalus. Tantalus sinned terribly against the gods which is why the
