While the wife of Atreus, Aerope was the lover of Atreus' twin brother Thyestes, and became involved in their power struggle for the kingship of Mycenea, and blood feud. The story was a popular one in Greek (and Roman) tragedy. Aeschylus' play "Agamemnon", contains several obscure allusions to the story, which indicate that, by at least 458 BC, the story was well known. There were several other later plays, all lost, which presumably also dealt with the story. We hear of plays by Sophocles, with titles "Atreus", "Thyestes" (possibly more than one), and "Thyestes in Sicyon", and by Euripides, with the titles "Kressai", and possibly a "Thyestes". Agathon, wrote a play titled "Aerope" (and a "Thyestes"), and perhaps so did the younger Carcinus. In addition Euripides' "Electra", and "Orestes", also contains significant references to the story.