Crossword-Solution: ATREUS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| ATREUS | anagram | ASTRUE, ATURES, AUSTER, AUTRES, SAUTER, SEURAT, TRUEAS, URATES |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with ATREUS (5)
Now as far as these lines, And he prayed all the Greeks, but especially the two sons of Atreus, the chiefs of the people, the poet is speaking in his own person; he never leads us to suppose that he is any one else.
But warlike Menelaus, the son of Atreus, prevailed against them all together, because he gave the greatest gifts.
And according to Hesiod, Pleisthenes was a son of Atreus and Aerope, and Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.
The Greeks believed that darkness overshadowed the earth at the deaths of Prometheus, Atreus, Hercules, Aesculapius, and Alexander the Great.
Remorseless aera, which hast filled the page With Atreus', Tantalus', Thyestes' rage! IX Barbarian! thou madest shorter by the head The boldest of his age, on whom did beam The sun 'twixt pole and pole, 'twixt Indus' bed And where he sinks in Ocean's western stream; Whose years and beauty might have pity bred In Anthropophagus, in Polypheme; Not thee; that art in wickedness outdone By any Cyclops, any Lestrigon.
Quotes with ATREUS (1)
... while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in Grimm or Disney, and most will never recognize the shape of it. I think the fantasy genre pitches its tent in the medieval campground for the very reason that we even bother to write stories about things that never happened in the first place: because it says something subtle and true about our own world, something it is difficult to say straight out, with a straight face. Somethi…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WP.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1948–2021).