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Agamemnon and is
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.

Agamemnon and now
The ' Mask of Agamemnon ', discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae now exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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 ).
Oreste, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, brother to Electra and Iphigenia, and by now absolved of the crime of matricide prophesied by the Delphic oracle, has come to the court of Pyrrhus to plead on behalf of the Greeks for the return of Astyanax.
After the war, having escaped the massacre organized by Clytaemnestra and Aegisthus of Agamemnon and his retinue, he travelled to Italy and founded the city of Falerii ( now Civita Castellana ), which received its name after him.
Menelaus approaches his brother Agamemnon ( Brian Cox ), a king who has conquered every army of Greece, and now commands them.
On 2 March 1856, Fisher was posted to HMS Agamemnon, and was sent to Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) to join her.
The brothers debate the matter and, eventually, each seemingly changes the other's mind: Menelaus is apparently convinced that it would be better to disband the Greek army than to have his niece killed, but Agamemnon is now ready to carry out the sacrifice, claiming that the army will storm his palace at Argos and kill his entire family if he does not.
It is now thought by some unlikely that the masks actually belonged to Agamemnon and other heroes of the Homeric epics.

Agamemnon and General
The patrol aspect of its mission appears to be why, in the earlier season 2 episode, " All Alone In The Night ", General Hague ( played by Robert Foxworth ) was able to call the Agamemnon ( which was in the area ) to help in the search of the captain who had been abducted by a group of aliens named the Streib.
He was entirely loyal to his father, General Agamemnon, and absolutely believed everything that he said, because he wished to become a cymek and a Titan like him.
In " Dune: Hunting Harkonnens ", Ulf and Katarina Harkonnen and their son Piers ( the parents and brother of Xavier Harkonnen ) are travelling to Salusa Secundus when they are attacked by thinking machines under the command of General Agamemnon, a cymek.

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
In Aeschylus ' Oresteia trilogy, Clytemnestra kills her husband, King Agamemnon because he had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to proceed forward with the Trojan war, and Cassandra, a prophetess of Apollo.
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.
Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: one son, Orestes, and three daughters, Iphigenia, Electra and Chrysothemis.
When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus ( in the oldest versions of the story ) or Clytemnestra.
Aegisthus and Thyestes thereafter ruled over Mycenae jointly, exiling Atreus ' sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus to Sparta, where King Tyndareus gave the pair his daughters, Clytemnestra and Helen, to take as wives.
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.
Unbeknownst to Agamemnon, while he was away at war, his wife, Clytemnestra, had begun an affair with Aegisthus.
Agamemnon initially rejects the hubris of walking on the fine purple tapestry, an act suggested by Clytemnestra, in hopes of bringing his ruin.
It also suggests that this event leads to the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra ( the latter being the daughter of Leda ).
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.
His wife Clytemnestra ( Helen's sister ) was having an affair with Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, Agamemnon's cousin who had conquered Argos before Agamemnon himself retook it.
Possibly out of vengeance for the death of Iphigenia, Clytemnestra plotted with her lover to kill Agamemnon.
Tyndareus had two ill-starred daughters, Helen and Clytemnestra, whom Menelaus and Agamemnon married, respectively.
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 ).
Clytemnestra was aided in her crime by Aegistheus, who reigned subsequently, but Orestes, son of Agamemnon, was smuggled out to Phocis.
He was slain by Agamemnon, King of Mycenae, who made Clytemnestra his wife.
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.
The story of Orestes was the subject of the Oresteia of Aeschylus ( Agamemnon, Choephori, Eumenides ), of the Electra of Sophocles, and of the Electra, Iphigeneia in Tauris, Iphigenia at Aulis ( in which he appears as an infant carried by Clytemnestra ), and Orestes, of Euripides.

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