<Li> The first English language translation in 1777 contributed greatly to the development of the Romantic period in literature . </Li> <Li> In the science fiction Dune series, Frank Herbert tells the story of Leto, Paul and Leto II of House Atreides, who trace their ancestry back to the original Atreides of the Trojan War . In one of the prequel novels by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, the play The Oresteia is performed in Castle Caladan, during the reign of Duke Paulus Atreides . In a later prequel, it is revealed that the Atreides in the Dune series are directly linked to the mythological Atreides . Their ancestry derives from Vorian Atreides who was the son (via insemination) of the leader of the cyborg cymeks who gives himself the pseudonym Agamemnon . </Li> <Li> Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Purloined Letter" makes reference to Atreus and Thyestes . </Li> <Li> In a column assessing Caroline Kennedy's candidacy for the US Senate seat being vacated by Hillary Clinton in early 2009, Maureen Dowd likened the Kennedy family role in US politics, from grandfather Joe Kennedy to father John Kennedy and uncles Robert Kennedy and Ted Kennedy, to the House of Atreus, and Caroline and her brother John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s place in it as "heartbreaking ." The columnist had eight years earlier traced the Kennedy / Atreus parallels in more detail, in a piece comparing the then - ascendant "Bush dynasty" with the Kennedy one . </Li>

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