Agamemnon: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
m (Text replacement - "the" to "tbe") |
m (Text replacement - "tbe" to "the") |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
'''Agamemnon''' was a king of Mycenae, | '''Agamemnon''' was a king of Mycenae, the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. He was the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. When Menelaus's wife, Helen, 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,<ref>Odyssey 11.409–11</ref> by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra. | ||
=References= | =References= | ||
Revision as of 13:01, 6 February 2023
Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae, the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. He was the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. When Menelaus's wife, Helen, 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,[1] by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.
References
- ↑ Odyssey 11.409–11