Agamemnon
Greek · scion · trojan war · scion
Scion of the Pelopid house (son of the scion Atreus by the mortal Aerope). King of Mycenae and supreme commander of the Greek coalition at Troy — Homer's 'lord of men.' Sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia at Aulis for sailing wind; his quarrel with Achilles over Briseis drives the Iliad. Murdered at his homecoming by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus — snared in a robe and axed in the bath in Aeschylus — the killing that the Odyssey contrasts with Odysseus's safe return and that the Oresteia builds upon. Brother of Menelaus and Anaxibia; father of Iphigenia, Electra, Chrysothemis, and Orestes.
Parentage
Children
Domains
- kingship
- war
- command
Powers
- Sovereign command of the Achaean host
- Battle prowess
Epithets
- ἄναξ ἀνδρῶν
- εὐρὺ κρείων
Relations
- sibling: Menelaus
- sibling: Anaxibia
- spouse: Clytemnestra
- father of: Iphigenia
- father of: Electra
- father of: Chrysothemis
- father of: Orestes
- enemy: Aegisthus