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                    "description": "Proper name: THYESTES (Θυέστης), a son of Pelops and Hippodameia, was the brother of Atreus and the father of Aegisthus. (Hom. Il. ii. 107; Aeschyl. Agam. 1242; Eurip. Or. 1008; comp. Atreus; Pelops; Agamemnon.) (<a href='https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Dictionary_of_Greek_and_Roman_Biography_and_Mythology\/Thyestes'>Wikisource<\/a> | public domain)"
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