Agamémnon (Greek: Αγαμέμνων) ("very resolute"), one of the most distinguished heroes of Greek mythology, was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae (or Argos) and Queen Aerope, and brother of Menelaus. Agamemnon - Early life. Agamemnon's father Atreus was murdered by Aegisthus, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his father Thyestes. During this period Agamemnon and Menelaus took refuge with Tyndareus, king of Sparta. There they respectively married Tyndareus' dau ...

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Another account makes him the son of Pleisthenes (the son or father of Atreus), who is said to have been Aerope's first husband. The fortunes of Agamemnon have formed the subject of numerous tragedies, ancient and modern, the most famous being the Oresteia of Aeschylus. In the legends of the Peloponnesus, Agamemnon was regarded as the highest type of a powerful monarch, and in Sparta he was worshipped under the title of Zeus Agamemnon. His tomb was pointed out ...

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The Oresteia - Introduction. Agamemnon details the return of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War to his death. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his death as revenge for the sacrifice of their daughter, Iphigenia. Furthermore, in the ten years of Agamemnon's absence, Clytemnestra has entered into an adulterous relationship with Aegisthus, Agamemnon's cousin and the scion of a dispossessed branch of the family, who is determined to regain the throne he believes should rightfully belong to him. ...

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The Oresteia is a trilogy of tragedies about the end of the curse on the House of Atreus, written by Aeschylus. It is the only surviving trilogy of ancient Greek plays, although the fourth satyr play that would have been performed with it has not survived. The trilogy was originally performed at the Dionysia festival in Athens in 458 BC, where it won first prize. The Oresteia - Agamemnon. The Oresteia - Introduction. Agamemnon details the return of Agamemnon, King ...

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• The Oresteia - The Eumenides
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In Greek mythology Artemis (World Book «AHR tuh mihs») (Greek Άρτεμις) is the daughter of Zeus and Leto and the twin sister of Apollo. In later times she was conflated with the goddess Diana of Roman mythology. In Etruscan mythology, she took the form of Artume. Artemis - Worship. She was the virgin moon goddess of the hunt, wild animals, healing, wilderness, chastity, and childbirth. She was worshipped as a fertility/childbirth goddess in many places since, according to some myths, s ...

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In Greek mythology, Chryseis (Greek: Χρύσηίς, Khrysēís) was a Trojan woman, the daughter of Chryses. Her real name was Astynome; 'Chryseis' was a patronym, deribed from her father, Chryses. In the first book of the Iliad, Agamemnon takes her as a war prize and refuses to allow her father, a priest of Apollo, to ransom her. An oracle of Apollo then sends a plague sweeping through the Greek armies and Agamemnon is forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it. Agamemnon compensates himself for this loss by taking Briseis from Achilles, an act that offends Achilles, who ...

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In Greek mythology, Chrysothemis was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Unlike her sister, Electra, Chrysothemis did not protest or enact vengeance against their mother for having an affair with Aegisthus and then killing their father. Category: Greek mythological people Other related archivesAegisthus, Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Electra, Gesneriaceae, Greek mythological people, Greek mythology, botany

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In Greek mythology, several persons were named Electra (also spelled Elektra): Daughter of Oceanus and Tethys, mother of Dardanus, Iasion and Harmonia, by Zeus. A Pleiade or Oceanid, mother of Iris and the Harpies by Thaumas. (Most famous "Electra") Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. Alternative: Laodice According to the story, Electra (daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra) was absent from Mycenae when her father, King Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan W ...

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In Greek mythology, Chryses (Greek: Χρύσης, Khrýsēs) was a priest of Apollo at Chryse, near the city of Troy. He and Briseus (father of Briseis) were said to be sons of a man named Ardys, otherwise unknown. During the Trojan War (prior to the actions described in Homer's Iliad), Agamemnon took his daughter Chryseis (=Astynome) as a war prize and when Chryses attempted to ransom her, refused to let her free. An oracle of Apollo then sent a plague sweeping through the Greek armies, and Agamemnon was forced t

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In Greek mythology, the Atreidae, or Atreidai, refer to Agamemnon and Menelaus, sons of Atreus— in English, the Atreides. The term is also used for their children and (less often) for their further descedants. In the Dune series, Frank Herbert tells the story of Leto, Paul, and Leto II of House Atreides, the enemies of the Harkonnen clan. They claim to trace their ancestry back to the original Atreides of the Trojan war. Other related archivesAgamemnon, At

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In Greek mythology, one of these people: In the Iliad, Antiphus, or Ántiphos, a Trojan ally, the son of Talaemenes and a nymph. During the Trojan War, he was killed by Agamemnon. One of the 50 sons of Priam, and son of Hecuba. A Greek commander who sailed from Troy with Odysseus and was devoured by Polyphemus. Iliad IV, 489. Other related archivesAgamemnon, Greek, Greek mythology, Hecuba, Iliad, Odysseus, Polyphemus, Priam, Tr

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In Greek mythology, Calchis was an oracle who told Agamemnon that he had angered Artemis and needed to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order to leave Aulis for Troy to fight in the Trojan War. Category: Classical oracles Other related archivesAgamemnon, Artemis, Aulis, Classical oracles, Greek mythology, Iphigenia, Trojan War, Troy, oracle

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The Achaeans (also Akhaians, Greek Αχαιοί) is the collective name given to the Greek forces in Homer's Iliad. An alternative name, used interchangeably, is Danaans. More specifically, Achaea in Homer is the province of Agamemnon, chief commander of the Greek forces, the northern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, roughly corresponding to the modern prefectures of Achaea and Corinth. The Homeric Achaeans would have bee ...

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Clytemnestra (Greek: Κλυταιμνήστρα Klytaimnéstra, "praiseworthy wooing") was the wife of Agamemnon, king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Mycenae or Argos. She was the daughter of Tyndareus and Leda and mother of Iphigeneia, Orestes, Chrysothemis and Electra. In Greek mythology, she was also believed to have been born of a union between Zeus and Leda, the former having wooed the latter in the guise of a swan. According to legend, following her union with the Olympian, Leda laid two eggs, Castor and Polydeuces (the ...

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In Greek mythology, Brisēis (Greek Βρισηίς) was a Trojan widow (from Lyrnessus) who was abducted during the Trojan War by Achilles upon the death of her three brothers and husband, King Mynes of Lyrnessus, in the fight. After an oracle forced Agamemnon to give up Chryseis, a woman he had captured, the king ordered his heralds Talthybius and Eryrates to take Briseis from Achilles as compensation. Achilles was offended by this seizure and, as a result, withdrew from the fighting. He did not re ...

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In Greek mythology, Kalkhas Thestórides, or Calchas ("brazen") for short, was a powerful prophet. He told the Greeks that Achilles was necessary for victory in the Trojan War, which he predicted would take ten years. He told the Greeks that they needed to return Chryseis to her father Chryses in order to get Apollo to stop sending arrows to them. He told Agamemnon why Artemis was displeased with him and that he needed to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease her. Calchas died of shame after the prophe ...

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In Greek mythology, Anius was the son of Apollo and Rhoeo. Anius was born on the island of Delos, which was sacred to his father Apollo, after the box in which his mother had been placed by Apollo when he had discovered her pregnancy washed ashore there. Anius became a priest of Apollo. Anius had three daughters: Oeno, Spermo, and Elais, known as the Oenotropae. Dionysus gave the three daughters the power to change whatever they wanted into wine, wheat, and oil. When Agamemnon went to the Trojan War, he wanted to take the Oenot ...

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This article is about Menelaus the king of Sparta. For the mathematician and astronomer, see Menelaus of Alexandria. Menelaus (also transliterated as Meneláos), in Greek mythology, was a king of Sparta and son of Atreus and Aerope. Atreus was murdered by his nephew, Aegisthus, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his father Thyestes. During this period Menelaus and his brother, Agamemnon, took refuge with Tyndareus, king of Sparta, whose daughters Helen and Clytemnestra they respectively married. ...

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Arthur Woolgar Verrall was a classics scholar associated with Trinity College, Cambridge, and the first occupant of the King Edward VII Chair of English. He was noted for his translations and for his challenging, unorthodox interpretations of the Greek dramatists, such as his commentary on Agamemnon. His detractors found his readings contorted and too ingenious. After his death, admirers M. A. Bayfield and J. D. Duff edited Verrall's Collected Literary Essays. Classical and Modern and Collected Essays in Greek and Latin Scholarship 1914. Among his publicat ...

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