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Thyestean

Meaning of "Thyestean" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THYESTEAN

θaɪˈɛstɪən;


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF THYESTEAN

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Thyestean is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES THYESTEAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Thyestes

In Greek mythology, Thyestes was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, King of Olympia, and father of Pelopia and Aegisthus. Thyestes and his brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus, in their desire for the throne of Olympia. They took refuge in Mycenae, where they ascended the throne upon the absence of King Eurystheus, who was fighting the Heracleidae. Eurystheus had meant for their lordship to be temporary; it became permanent due to his death in conflict.

Definition of Thyestean in the English dictionary

The definition of Thyestean in the dictionary is of or relating to a son of Pelops and brother of Atreus, with whose wife he committed adultery. In revenge, Atreus killed Thyestes' sons and served them to their father at a banquet.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH THYESTEAN

diazotization · Eindhoven · roentgenization · Voltairean

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THYESTEAN

Thutmose I · Thutmose III · thuya · thwack · thwacker · thwaite · thwart · thwartedly · thwarter · thwartingly · thwartly · thwartship · thwartways · thwartwise · THX · thy · Thyestes · Thyestian

WORDS THAT END LIKE THYESTEAN

adamantean · arbutean · Atlantean · costean · Dantean · gigantean · insectean · Mozartean · Nabatean · nemertean · Procrustean · protean · stean · teleostean

Synonyms and antonyms of Thyestean in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
380 millions of speakers
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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நர மாமிசம் தின்கிற
75 millions of speakers
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थेमेस्टीयन
75 millions of speakers
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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Thyestean
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THYESTEAN»

Discover the use of Thyestean in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Thyestean and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various ...
.2£s erat in pretio : Chalybeia massa latebat :" but Milton makes it short by the same poetical liberty, with which he had before used JE'gean for JEgean, and Thyestean for Thyestean. NEWTON. It is not necessary to suppose that Milton in this ...
John Milton, 1842
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Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt: Geschichte und ...
Eusebius105 reports that during the anti-Christian violence in Lyons in 177 certain slaves, under threat of torture testified that their Christian masters were guilty of illicit intercourses and Thyestean banquets106. Origen knew of such charges ...
Hildegard Temporini, Wolfgang Haase, 1980
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English Poems
Spartan twins; Gemini, i.e. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda, wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta. 1. 686. Estotiland, the modern Greenland. Keightley observes that no country is named Magellan. 1. 687. Thyestean; i. e. made for, not by, Thyestes.
John Milton, Richard Charles Browne, 1873
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A Review of the Text of Milton's Paradise Lost:: In which ...
At that tasted Fruit The Sun, as from Thyestean Banquet, turn'd His COURSE INTENDED. Else &C Dr. B. fays that Thyestean for Thyestean is intolerable : but I have shewn thzt M. used Ægean for Ægean, in my Note on I. 745. and so our ^ Poet ...
Zachary Pearce, 1733
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The Ethics of Diet - An Anthology of Vegetarian Thought
With the Hindu peoples the Thyestean feast would have been impossible. With such shocking pictures, however, could the human imagination delight itself – for human and non-human murder was now in full swing. And has the imagination of  ...
Howard Williams, 2010
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Christopher Marlowe the Craftsman: Lives, Stage, and Page
Marlowe then shifts the focus to another metaphorical expression of consumption , the Thyestean theme of tyranny.6 In his hunger, Tamburlaine 3 From Communion to Cannibalism: An Anatomy of Metaphors of Incorporation ( Princeton: ...
Dr Sarah K Scott, Professor Michael L Stapleton, 2013
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Backgrounds of Early Christianity
These "secret crimes" are known from the writings of the Christian apologists. Athenagoras stated the charges against Christians succinctly: "Three things are alleged against us: atheism, Thyestean feasts, Oedipodean intercourse" (Plea 3).
Everett Ferguson, 2003
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Plans of Paradise lost as a tragedy. Lauder's interpolations
The sun,ias from Thyestean banquet, turn'dHis course intended; else, how had the World I-nhabited, though sinless, more than now, 690 i Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat? These changes in 'the Heavens, though flow, produdd The ...
John Milton, Henry John Todd, 1809
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Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition
... Tantalid auspices; bloody decapitation; fear of universal chaos; Thyestean eclipse; Thyestean crime against children; rex regain, 'king of ltings'; mingling of blood and wine; the underworld's criminal triad; the lion, uirtarfrranm, 'vanquisher of ...
A. J. Boyle, 2013
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The Poetical Works of Sir William Alexander
... in the high Thyestean manner, which Cinthio's Orbecche and Epitia had once more popularised. In Decio da Orte's Acripanda (1591) the children of Acripanda and Ussimano are murdered by Ussimano's son (of an earlier marriage), whose ...
William Alexander Earl of Stirling, L. E. Kastner, H. B. Charlton, 1921

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THYESTEAN»

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The Skriker review – Maxine Peake in a Midsummer Night's vision of …
And the music by Nico Muhly and Antony Hegarty has a similar unearthly quality, not least in a quasi-religious chorale to accompany a Thyestean banquet. «The Guardian, Jul 15»
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Thyestean [网易吉林省长春市手机网友] 2014-01-24 00:38:29. 说了半天好像没什么有用的. 顶[256]; 回复; 复制. 136. m159****3217 [网易四川省广安市手机网友] ... «网易, Jan 14»
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IDLE TALES AND EMPTY SLANDERS
Around 177, Athenagoras wrote his Legatio pro Christianis, which noted that “Three things are brought against us Christians: atheism, Thyestean feasts, and ... «Patheos, Aug 13»
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The early church, the bread, and the wine
Three things are charged against us: atheism, Thyestean feasts [cannibalism], OEdipodean intercourse [incest]. But if these charges are true, spare no class: ... «RenewAmerica, Oct 09»
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The 300 Savages at Thermopylae: A Response to the Hollywood …
In Greek legend, Thyestas' sons were killed and served to Thyestas himself by his own brother, whence the term Thyestean banquest arose to denote cannibal ... «Payvand, Mar 07»
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Pleasanton teen's run undone by a bad spell / Tie for second gets …
Another Bay Area student, 11-year-old Evan O'Dorney of Danville, made it to the eighth round of the competition after spelling words such as "Thyestean, ... «San Francisco Chronicle, Jun 05»
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