After Agamemnon and Menelaus have an argument, Clytemnestra arrives at Aulis with Iphigenia and Orestes.

When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.

After this event Aegisthus reigned seven years longer over Mycenae, until in the eighth Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, returned home and avenged the death of his father by putting the adulterer to death.

Incidentally, Telemachus learns the fate of Menelaus ’ brother Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks at Troy: he was murdered on his return home by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

Proteus then answered truthfully, further informing Menelaus that his brother Agamemnon had been murdered on his return home, that Ajax the Lesser had been shipwrecked and killed, and that Odysseus was stranded on Calypso's Isle Ogygia.

Agamemnon returned home with Cassandra to Argos.

When Agamemnon returned home he brought with him a new concubine, the doomed prophetess, Cassandra.

The reference to Phthia is itself a reference to Homer's Iliad ( ix. 363 ), when Achilles, upset at having his war-prize, Briseis, taken by Agamemnon, rejects Agamemnon's conciliatory presents and threatens to set sail in the morning ; he says that with good weather he might arrive on the third day " in fertile Phthia " — his home.

She asks if Helen has returned home to the house of Menelaus, and of the fates of Calchas, Odysseus, Achilles, and Agamemnon.

Dwight calls Agamemnon for a ride home and they stop several times for fast food.

Agamemnon waits behind, to appease her ; Diomedes and Nestor set sail straightaway, and reach home safely ; Menelaus sets sail, but encounters a storm, loses most of his ships, lands in Egypt and is delayed there for several years.

This is a possible prototype of the Agamemnon of mythology.

There are several reasons throughout myth for such wrath: in Aeschylus ' play Agamemnon, Artemis is angry for the young men who will die at Troy, whereas in Sophocles ' Electra, Agamemnon has slain an animal sacred to Artemis, and subsequently boasted that he was Artemis ' equal in hunting.

In works of art there is considerable resemblance between the representations of Zeus, king of the gods, and Agamemnon, king of men.

* In the 1956 epic film Helen of Troy, Agamemnon is played by Robert Douglas.

* In the 1976 science fiction novel Children of Dune, written by Frank Herbert, Agamemnon is mentioned as an ancestor of the Atreides family.

* In the 1981 British fantasy film Time Bandits, Agamemnon is played by Sean Connery.

* In the 2003 miniseries Helen of Troy, Agamemnon is portrayed by Rufus Sewell.

* In the 2004 epic war film Troy, Agamemnon is depicted as a ruthless power-mad king played by Brian Cox.

* In the 2011 video game Warriors: Legends of Troy, Agamemnon is portrayed as a power-hungry tryant and is the main antagonist.

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Another example is in the tragedy Agamemnon, by Aeschylus.

But neither the Atreus nor the Agamemnon of legend have any brothers named * Etewoclewes ( Eteocles ); this name, rather, is associated with Thebes, which during the preceding LHIIIA period Amenhotep III had viewed as equal to Mycenae.

But the Alaksandu of the treaty is too early to be king of a city assaulted by Agamemnon, and besides, Priam was king of that city.

* c. 1600 BC – 1550 BC —" Mask of Agamemnon " Funerary mask, from the royal tombs at Mycenae, Greece, is made.

* In James Callis's revisionist 2003 miniseries Helen of Troy, Menelaus is encouraged to fight the Trojan War by his brother Agamemnon instead of by Helen's infidelity or the resulting slight to his honor.

" People also kissed the earth for joy on returning to their native land after a lengthened absence, as when Agamemnon returned from the Trojan War Nyrop points out, however, that in modern times the ceremonious kiss of respect " has gone clean out of fashion in the most civilised countries ," and it is only retained in the Church, and that in many cases " the practice would be offensive or ridiculous.

A prime example of the use of the ekkyklêma is after the murder of Agamemnon in the first play of Aeschylus ' Oresteia, when the king's butchered body is wheeled out in a grand display for all to see.

* In the 2003 TV miniseries Helen of Troy, the character Paris, played by actor Matthew Marsden, is killed by Agamemnon.

In most sources, Iphigeneia is the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, but Duris of Samos and other writers followed Stesichorus ' account.

Clytemnestra ( unsuccessfully ) warns Agamemnon that sacrificing Iphigenia for Helen's sake is, " buying what we most detest with what we hold most dear ".

Another example is in the tragedy Agamemnon, by Aeschylus.

Agamemnon initially rejects the hubris of walking on the fine purple tapestry, an act which is suggested by Clytemnestra, in hopes of bringing his ruin.

According to reports about Euripides ' lost play Telephus, he went to Aulis pretending to be a beggar ; there he asked Clytemnaestra, the wife of Agamemnon, what he should do to be healed.

And there she became, according to most accounts, the mother of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

Against everyone's advice, Sheridan decides to go to Mars alone, and the Agamemnon agrees to transport him there.

Once there he regains his father Agamemnon ’ s trust.

The tomb has probably no relationship with either Atreus or Agamemnon, as archaeologists believe that the sovereign buried there ruled at an earlier date than the two ; it was named thus by Heinrich Schliemann and the name has been used ever since.

In ancient times, there was a small settlement on this site which legends claim was founded by Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.

They spent the night there, and Menelaus was called to Agamemnon, and thus Helen and Paris were left alone.

In certain graves there was the distinctive practice of what amounts to modelling a clay mask over the deceased's face, creating an obvious if not necessarily correct association to the famous gold funeral mask of Agamemnon ( see also Tashtyk culture ).