Agamemnon

Maggie Guenther
Adv. English Period 3
 Agamemnon
● Agamemnon was the king of Argos
● Commander in Chief of the combined
forces
● Leader of Greek forces in The Trojan War
● Agamemnon was such an amazing warrior
and leader his tomb was point out among
the ruins of Mycenae and at Amyclae.
● Cassandra was the daughter of King Priam
and Queen Hecuba of Troy.
● Cassandra was Agamemnon's concubine.
 Family Tree
● Atreus was his father
● Queen Aerope was his mother
● Clytemnestra was his wife
● He had one son; Orestes and three
daughters; Iphigeneia, Electra, and
Chrysothemis.
● Sources say that Cassandra and
Agamemnon had twin boys; Teledamus
and Pelops.
 While on his journey to Troy
Agamemnon was faced with an impediment.
The goddess Artemis was controlling the
winds so his ship wouldn't sail correctly. The
only way Artemis would stop controlling the
winds out of his favor is if Agamemnon
sacrificed his own daughter, Iphigeneia.
On Agamemnon's way back from the
Capture of Troy he landed in Argolis.
Aegisthus had seduced Agamemnon's wife.
Aegisthus invited Agamemnon and his
shipmates to a banquet. They were all
terribly murdered. Clytaemnestra put
Cassandra to death because she was
supposedly jealous of Agamemnon and
Cassandra's relationship(even though when
Agamemnon
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was away at war Clytaemnestra was having an
affair with Aegisthus.)“According to the
account given by Pindar and the tragedians,
Agamemnon was slain by his wife alone in a
bath, a piece of cloth or a net having first
been thrown over him to prevent resistance”.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopedia_Britannica/Agamemnon
). The reason for Clymaemnestra doing all of
this is said to be because of her jealousy of
Cassandra and her anger from when
Agamemnon sacrificed their daughter,
Iphigeneia.
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Fun Facts!
To avenge their father's death
Orestes and Electra killed their
mother and Aegithus.
● Agamemnon means very resolute
● Agamemnon's mare was Aetha.
● Agamemnon killed Antimus during
the Trojan War.
● Agamemnon was featured in The
Iliad in a fight with Achilles in the
last year of the war.
● Argolis was Aegithus' land.
 Photo Credits:
● http://www.mythindex.com/greekmythology/A/Agamemnon.html
● http://antiquitatis.com/greece/hall_heroes/hall_of_heroes_files/agamemnon3926.jpg
● http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Film/Pix/gallery/2004/05/05/troy123233338.jpg
● http://homepage.smc.edu/randall_toni/ESL%2021A/agamemnon.jpg
● http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e8/Lekanis_Agamemnon_MNA_Taranto.jpg
● http://home.flash.net/~torchie/images-2/2AgamemnonOdyessus.JPG
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 Works Cited Guenther 1

● Agamemnon, Encyclopedia Britannica Volume 1; Edition

15, page 139. Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. Chicago, 2010.
● Room, Adrian. Room's Classified Dictionary: The Origins of
the Names of Characters in Classical Mythology. Print,
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul Inc, 1983.
● Agamemnon, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc. Last modified April 23, 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon
● Cassandra, Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia
Foundation, Inc. Last modified May 2, 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra
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Foundation, Inc. Last modified January 6, 2010.
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a/Agamemnon