[ noun ] (Greek mythology) the king of Mycenae and father of Agamemnon and of Menelaus <noun.person>
Observer's learned readers spy greater depths of significance in Bill Rooney's decision to stage his comeback - just over a year after being kicked out of Spring Ram - via another bathroom goods supplier called Atreus.
In one version of the myth, Atreus carelessly loses the Ram to his brother Thyestes and, endeavouring to get it back, hits upon the idea of feeding Thyestes with the flesh of his own children.