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This article refers to elements from Expanded Dune Pages for this subject as it appears in other canons:
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Atreus was the Greek namesake of House Atreus[3] and the father of General Agamemnon.[1]
The House Atreisdes derived its name from House Atreus and were directly descended from Atreus, allowing Leto Atreides II to access his memory through Other Memory.[4]
Appearances[]
- Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (mentioned only)
- Dune: The Battle of Corrin (mentioned only)
- Dune: House Atreides (mentioned only)
- Paul of Dune (mentioned only)
- God Emperor of Dune (mentioned only)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Dune: House Atreides - Chapter 3: House Atreides claimed to trace its roots more than twelve thousand years, back to the ancient sons of Atreus on Old Terra. Now the family embraced its long history, despite the numerous tragic and dishonorable incidents it contained. The Dukes had made an annual tradition of performing the classic tragedy of Agamemnon, the most famous son of Atreus and one of the generals who had conquered Troy.
- ↑ Dune: House Corrino - Chapter 121: The name had been chosen to honor Leto’s father Paulus, while the middle name, Orestes, commemorated the son of Agamemnon in the House of Atreus, thought to be the forerunner of House Atreides.
- ↑ God Emperor of Dune - Hadi Benotto translation of the volumes discovered at Dar-es-Balat: My paternal grandfather was The Atreides, descendant of the House of Atreus and tracing his ancestry directly back to the Greek original.
- ↑ God Emperor of Dune - Chapter 25: "And I have traversed the far wanderings of the Fremen. Through my father’s line and the others, I have gone right back to the House of Atreus."