The House of Atreus

                                          Zeus + Pluto
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                                    Dione + Tantalus
                  Oenomaus      __________|_________
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                 Hippodamia + Pelops             Niobe 
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Pittheus  Chrysippus                  Atreus + Aerope*                                            Thyestes + Aerope*      
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 Aethra + Aegeus                  |           |                  |                               |             |          
        |              Nestor + Anaxibia  Menelaus + Helen**   Agamemnon + Clytemnestra^       Aglaus        Pelopea + Thyestes      
     THESEUS            ______|______              |         ____________|__________________                         |
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                     7 sons    2 daughters       Hermione + Orestes  Electra + Pylades   Iphigenia               Aegisthus    
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                                                       Tisamenus     Medon      Strophius                                 
                                                           

 Clytemnestra^ / Helen**
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       V                                                                          Ares + Demonice
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                Batieia + Oebalus                                                  Thestius + Eurythemis
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Arena  Icarius  Aphareus  Leucippus  Tyndareus/Zeus + Leda  Eurypylus  Hypermenstra  Iphiclus  Evippus  Plexippus  Althea
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                  Clytemnestra^  Phylonoe  Helen  Castor  Polyduces  Timandra  Helen**

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