Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae, the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope. He was the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. He commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War. Upon his return from Troy, he was killed by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife ClytemNestra.
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In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae, the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope. He was the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. He commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War. Upon his return from Troy, he was killed by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife ClytemNestra. His name in Greek, means’very steadfast’, ‘unbowed’, or’very much’ He was killed during the Trojan War by Ant-chief Aegisthu. He is also known as the ‘father of the Greeks’ and the ‘first king of the gods’ in Greek mythology. He died in the battle of Tauris in the Crimean Peninsula in the 4th century BC. He had four children: Oreste, Iphigeneia and Electra, as well as a daughter, Chrysotemis.
His son, Menelus, succeeded Tyndareus, King of Sparta, and became the most powerful prince in Greece. He also had a son, Orestis, and three daughters, I phigenia and Chrysotsis. In some versions of the story, the murder is usually the house of Aegist Hus, who has not taken up residence in Agamamnon’s palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agememnon’s followers as well. Other sources, such as Hesiod, say that Agamnon was prepared to kill his daughter, but that Artemis accepted a deer in her place, and whisked her away to be the goddess Hesiod said she became. In Aeschylus, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles’ Electra he boasts that he was Artemis’ equal in hunting.
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