Agamemnon

In Greek mythology, a Greek hero of the Trojan wars, son of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and brother of Menelaus. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia in order to secure favourable winds for the Greek expedition against Troy and after a ten-year siege sacked the city, receiving Priam's daughter Cassandra as a prize. On his return home, he and Cassandra were murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

The guilty couple were eventually killed by his children Orestes and Electra.

Agamemnon was worshipped in Sparta in Hellenistic times. His story may be an elaboration of historical events surrounding a human king. The dynastic rivalries between the houses of Atreus and Thyestes are known as the legend of the Atridae.