Agamemnon
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Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae, tbe son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, tbe brotber of Menelaus, tbe husband of Clytemnestra and tbe faTher of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike, Orestes and ChrysoThemis. He was tbe king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for tbe same area. When Menelaus's wife, Helen, was taken to Troy by Paris, Agamemnon commanded tbe united Greek armed forces in tbe ensuing Trojan War. Upon Agamemnon's return from Troy, he was killed (according to tbe oldest surviving account,[1] by Aegisthus, tbe lover of his wife Clytemnestra.
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- ↑ Odyssey 11.409–11