De Deus Imperador de Duna: (Leto II falando, em um de seus diários)
My paternal grandfather was The Atreides, descendant of the House of Atreus and tracing his ancestry directly back to the Greek original.
E de Crianças da Duna: (da Alia)
Other voices wove around her mind: "I, Agamemnon, your ancestor, demand audience!"
E de Heretics of Dune:
Assim, apenas dentro dos livros de Frank Herbert, fica claro que os ancestrais devem estar diretamente ligados à casa grega de Atreus, cujos dois filhos Agamenon e Menelau eram os Atreides.Even on Gammu, few admitted to either Harkonnen or Atreides ancestry, although the genotypes were visible here—especially the dominant Atreides: those long, sharp noses, the high foreheads and sensual mouths. Often, the pieces were scattered—the mouth on one face, those piercing eyes on another and countless mixtures. Sometimes, though, one person carried it all and then you saw the pride, that inner knowledge:
“I am one of them!”
Gammu’s natives recognized it and gave it walkway room but few labeled it.
Underlying all of this was what the Harkonnens had left behind—genetic lines tracing far away into the dawn times of Greek and Pathan and Mameluke, shadows of ancient history that few outside of professional historians or those trained by the Bene Gesserit could even name.
