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noun - (Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War
The king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, who was the son of Atreus and the father of Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia.
AGAMEMNON - In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Greek: , gamémnn) was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of C...
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| In "Time Bandits", Sean Connery plays this King of Mycenae who led the Greeks in the "Iliad" |
| Aeschylus' play named for this king, Clytemnestra's husband, opens at his palace in Argos |
| Leader of the Greek armies, he was murdered by his own wife after the war |
| In "The Iliad":Hector,Agamemnon,Patroclus |
| Revenge is taken on this crowned guy after he sacrifices daughter Iphigenia |
| Electra has unresolved Daddy issues about him; is it guilt because he sacrificed her sister Iphigenia? |
| This king & his wife Clytemnestra appear in Gluck's opera "Iphigeneia in Aulis" |
| The soothsayer Calchas told this king he had to offer up his daughter Iphigenia to Artemis to get winds to rise |
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In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Greek: , gamémnn) was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike (), Orestes and Chrysothemis. Legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was taken to Troy by Paris, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War. * Upon Agamemnon's return from Troy, he was killed (according to the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11.40911) by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra. In old versions of the story, the scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's followers as well. In some later versions, Clytemnestra herself does the killing, or they act together as accomplices, killing Agamemnon in his |