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- Etymology
- Description
- Ancestry and Early Life
- Trojan War
- Return to Greece and Death
- The Curse of The House of Atreus
- Other Stories
- In Media and Art
- See Also
- General References
His name in Greek, Ἀγαμέμνων, means "very steadfast", "unbowed" or "resolute". The word comes from *Ἀγαμέδμων (*Agamédmōn) from ἄγαν, "very much" and μέδομαι, "think on".
In the account of Dares the Phrygian, Agamemnon was described as "...blond, large, and powerful. He was eloquent, wise, and noble, a man richly endowed."
Agamemnon was a descendant of Pelops, son of Tantalus. According to the common story (as told in the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer), Agamemnon and his younger brother Menelaus were the sons of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and Aerope, daughter of the Cretan king Catreus. However, according to another tradition, Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Atreu...
Sailing for Troy
Agamemnon gathers the reluctant Greek forces to sail for Troy. In order to recruit Odysseus, who is feigning madness so as to not have to go to war, Agamemnon sends Palamedes, who threatens to kill Odysseus' infant son Telemachus. Odysseus is forced to stop acting mad in order to save his son and joined the assembled Greek forces. Preparing to depart from Aulis, a port in Boeotia, Agamemnon's army incurs the wrath of the goddess Artemis, although the myths give various reasons for this. In Ae...
The Iliad
The Iliad tells the story of the quarrel between Agamemnon and Achilles in the final year of the war. In Book One, following one of the Achaean Army's raids, Chryseis, daughter of Chryses, one of Apollo's priests, is taken as a war prize by Agamemnon. Chryses pleads with Agamemnon to free his daughter but meets with little success. Chryses then prays to Apollo for the safe return of his daughter. Apollo responds by unleashing a plague over the Achaean Army. The Prophet Calchas tells that the...
End of the war
According to Sophocles's Ajax, after Achilles had fallen in battle, Agamemnon and Menelaus award Achilles' armor to Odysseus. This angers Ajax, who feels he is now the strongest among the Achaean warriors and so deserves the armor. Ajax considers killing them, but is driven to madness by Athena and instead slaughters the herdsmen and cattle that had not yet been divided as spoils of war. He then commits suicide in shame for his actions. As Ajax dies he curses the sons of Atreus (Agamemnon and...
After a stormy voyage, Agamemnon and Cassandra land in Argolis, or, in another version, are blown off course and land in Aegisthus's country. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, has taken Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, as a lover. When Agamemnon comes home he is slain by Aegisthus (in the oldest versions of the story) or by Clytemnestra. According to the ...
Agamemnon's family history is rife with misfortune, born from several curses contributing to the miasma around the family. The curse begins with Agamemnon's great-grandfather Tantalus, who is in Zeus's favor until he tries to feed his son Pelops to the gods in order to test their omniscience, as well as stealing some ambrosia and nectar. Tantalus i...
Athenaeus tells a tale of how Agamemnon mourns the loss of his friend or lover Argynnus, when he drowns in the Cephisus river. He buries him, honored with a tomb and a shrine to Aphrodite Argynnis. This episode is also found in Clement of Alexandria, in Stephen of Byzantium (Kopai and Argunnos), and in Propertius, III with minor variations. The for...
Portrayal in film and television
1. The 1924 film Helenaby Karl Wüstenhagen 2. The 1956 film Helen of Troy by Robert Douglas 3. The 1961 film The Trojan Horse by Nerio Bernardi 4. The 1962 film The Fury of Achilles by Mario Petri 5. The 1962 film Electraby Theodoros Dimitriou 6. The 1968 TV miniseries The Odysseyby Rolf Boysen 7. The 1977 film Iphigenia by Kostas Kazakos 8. The 1981 film Time Bandits by Sean Connery 9. The 1994 TV series “Babylon 5” John Sheridan’s previous command is the EAS Agamemnon. 10. The 1997 TV minis...
Secondary sources
1. Aeschylus, Agamemnon in Aeschylus, with an English translation by Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph. D. in two volumes, Vol 2, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1926, Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. 2. Apollodorus, Apollodorus, The Library, with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. 3. Athenae...
Primary sources
1. Homer, Iliad 2. Euripides, Electra 3. Sophocles, Electra 4. Seneca, Agamemnon 5. Aeschylus, The Libation Bearers 6. Homer, OdysseyI, 28–31; XI, 385–464 7. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 8. Apollodorus, Epitome, II, 15 – III, 22; VI, 23
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