In Greek mythology, Agamemnon (; Ancient Greek: ; modern Greek:, " very steadfast ") was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Electra and Orestes.

When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris of Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.

According to the former, he married a Greek princess, Damodice daughter of Agamemnon of Cyme, Aeolia, and traded extensively with the Greeks.

The murder of Agamemnon ( 1879 illustration from Alfred John Church | Alfred Church's Stories from the Greek Tragedians )

She and other members of this group were descendants of an immortal youth named Agamemnon and were named after characters in Greek mythology.

The Return of Agamemnon, Illustration from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church, 1897.

The Murder of Agamemnon, Illustration from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church, 1897.

He was the son of Atreus and Aerope, and brother of Agamemnon king of Mycenae and, according to the Iliad, leader of the Spartan contingent of the Greek army during the War.

The Anger of Achilles, by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo depicts the Greek hero attacking Agamemnon.

In Greek mythology, Orestes (; ) was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon.

Orestes was absent from Mycenae when his father, Agamemnon, returned from the Trojan War with the Trojan princess Cassandra as his concubine, and thus not present for Agamemnon's murder by his wife, Clytemnestra, in retribution for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia to obtain favorable winds during the Greek voyage to Troy.

In The Greek Myths the mythographer and poet, Robert Graves, translates and interprets the legends and myth fragments about Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, and Orestes, as suggesting a ritual killing of a " king " ( Agamemnon ) in very early religious ceremonies that were suppressed when patriarchy replaced the matriarchies of very ancient Greece.

Iphigenia (;, Iphigeneia ) is a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.

In Greek mythology, Electra (, Ēlektra ) was the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus princess of Argos.

In Greek mythology, Strophius, son of Crisus, was a King of Phocis, husband of the sister of Agamemnon ( whose name was either Anaxibia, Astyocheia or Cydragora ) and by her father of Pylades and Astydameia.

In Greek mythology, Pylades (; Greek: Πυλάδης ) is the son of King Strophius of Phocis and of Anaxibia, daughter of Atreus and sister of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

In Greek mythology, Atreus () was a king of Mycenae, the son of Pelops and Hippodamia, and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus.

It was Calchas who prophesied that in order to gain a favourable wind to deploy the Greek ships mustered in Aulis on their way to Troy, Agamemnon would need to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigeneia, to appease Artemis, whom Agamemnon had offended ; the episode was related at length in the lost Cypria, of the Epic Cycle.

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, so Agamemnon sends Odysseus to return Chryseis to her father.

Hector, however, overrules Polydamas, leaving the army in the field when Achilles ends his feud with Agamemnon and rejoins the Achaean forces.

Onboard his former ship, the EAS Agamemnon, Sheridan prepares his forces to attack the fleet orbiting Mars so that he will not be outflanked when attacking Earth.

Sheridan's old ship, the Agamemnon, showed up and joined with his forces.

While touring the Agamemnon, Sheridan received a message from Michael Garibaldi that his father had been captured by Clark's forces, and asked him to come to Mars.

In 2260, the Agamemnon was patrolling the solar system when Sheridan took the White Star to destroy the Shadow cruiser being studied by Earth Alliance forces.

During the Earth civil war to overthrow President Morgan Clark the Agamemnon defected to rebel forces led by Sheridan.

Ivanova asked Sheridan to command the final battle from the Agamemnon to give a legitimate appearance to Sheridan's forces.

In Euripides ’ Iphigenia at Aulis, Agamemnon is told by Calchas that in order for the winds to allow him to sail to Troy, Agamemnon must sacrifice Iphigenia to Artemis.

In the earliest testimony for this character in ancient Greek literature ( the account of Homer ), Cinyras was a ruler on Cyprus who gave a corselet to Agamemnon as a guest-gift when he heard that the Greeks were planning to sail to Troy.

Accordingly, when the seducer Paris stole Menelaus ' wife, all those who had sworn the oath were summoned by Agamemnon ( Menelaus ’ brother ), so that they would join the coalition that was to sail from Aulis to Troy in order to demand the restoration of Helen and the Spartan property that was stolen.

When the sacrifice of Iphigenia ( Agamemnon ’ s daughter ) became a necessity for Achaeans to sail away from Aulis, king Agamemnon had to choose between sacrificing his daughter and resigning from his post of high commander among Achaeans ( in which case Diomedes would probably become the leader ).

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.

The play revolves around Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek coalition before and during the Trojan War, and his decision to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess Artemis and allow his troops to set sail to preserve their honour in battle against Troy.

Years before, near the start of the Trojan War, the Greek general Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia in order to appease the goddess Artemis and allow the Greek army to set sail for Troy.

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.

As Agamemnon is getting ready to sail, Achilles ' ghost appears to him and foretells his fate.

Agamemnon makes a sacrifice and sets sail anyway ; Neoptolemus, however, is visited by his grandmother, the sea-nymph Thetis, who tells him to wait and make further sacrifices to the gods.

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.

On the eve of sailing from Aulis he attempted to offer a sacrifice, as Agamemnon had done before the Trojan expedition, but the Thebans intervened to prevent it, an insult for which he never forgave them.

The whole charge was sometimes said to have been an invention of Agamemnon, who wanted to have Cassandra for himself.

While Agamemnon, the son of Atreus, was absent on his expedition against Troy, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra, the wife of Agamemnon, and was so wicked as to offer up thanks to the gods for the success with which his criminal exertions were crowned.

Thomas appeared in the play Comus for Third Programme, the day after the network launched, and his rich, sonorous voice led to character parts, including the lead in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon and Satan in an adaptation of Paradise Lost.

Notably he encountered the spirit of Agamemnon, of whose murder he now learned, and Achilles, who told him about the woes of the land of the dead ( for Odysseus ' encounter with the dead, see also Nekuia ).

Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and the brother of Helen's husband Menelaus, led an expedition of Achaean troops to Troy and besieged the city for ten years because of Paris ' insult.

From Tenedos, Agamemnon sent an embassy to Priam, composed of Menelaus, Odysseus, and Palamedes, asking for Helen's return.

The letter and gold were " discovered ", and Agamemnon had Palamedes stoned to death for treason.

Chryses pleading with Agamemnon for his daughter ( 360 – 350 BC )

Chryses, a priest of Apollo and father of Chryseis, came to Agamemnon to ask for the return of his daughter.

Possibly out of vengeance for the death of Iphigenia, Clytemnestra plotted with her lover to kill Agamemnon.

Agamemnon conducted a 10-year war against Troy to get her back for his brother.

After the war, Agamemnon, returning, was greeted royally with a red carpet rolled out for him and then was slain in his bathtub by Clytemnestra, who hated him bitterly for having ordered the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia ( although the life of the latter had been saved ).

Assisted by King Tyndareus of Sparta, they drove Thyestes away, and Agamemnon took the throne for himself.

Invoking the oath of Tyndareus, Menelaus and Agamemnon raised a fleet of one thousand ships according to legend and went to Troy to secure Helen's return ; the Trojans were recalcitrant, providing a casus belli for the Trojan War.

" He was admitted to the Painting Department of the École des Beaux-Arts in October 1799, and won, after tying for second place in 1800, the Grand Prix de Rome in 1801 for his Ambassadors of Agamemnon in the tent of Achilles.

" 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.