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Agamemnon

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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.



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And Achilles answered, "Fear not, but speak as it is borne in upon you from heaven, for by Apollo, Calchas, to whom you pray, and whose oracles you reveal to us, not a Danaan at our ships shall lay his hand upon you, while I yet live to look upon the face of the earth--no, not though you name Agamemnon himself, who is by far the foremost of the Achaeans.
The Iliad by Homer View in context
Then follow the incidents connected with the gathering of the Achaeans and their ultimate landing in Troy; and the story of the war is detailed up to the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon with which the "Iliad" begins.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
“Draw up in the quarry—draw up, thou king of the Greeks; draw into the quarry, Agamemnon, or I shall never be able to pass you.
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