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Agamemnon and sent
In order not to be surprised by the return of Agamemnon, he sent out spies, and when Agamemnon came, Aegisthus invited him to a repast at which he had him treacherously murdered.
From Tenedos, Agamemnon sent an embassy to Priam, composed of Menelaus, Odysseus, and Palamedes, asking for Helen's return.
Menelaus, her future husband, did not attend but sent his brother, Agamemnon, to represent him.
In some versions he was sent away by Clytemnestra to avoid having him present during the murder of Agamemnon ; in others Electra herself rescued the infant Orestes and sent him away to protect him from their mother.
In the Iliad, Calchas tells the Greeks that the captive Chryseis must be returned to her father Chryses in order to get Apollo to stop the plague he has sent as a punishment: this triggered the quarrel of Achilles and Agamemnon, the main theme of the Iliad.
When he already entered adulthood, Thyestes was captured by Agamemnon and Menelaus at Delphi and brought to Atreus, who sent Aegisthus to kill him.
Chryses prayed to Apollo, and he, in order to defend the honor of his priest, sent a plague sweeping through the Greek armies, and Agamemnon was forced to give Chryseis back in order to end it.
Eustathius in his commentary on this passage relates that Cinyras promised assistance to Agamemnon, but did not keep his word: having promised to send fifty ships, he actually sent only one, while the rest were sculpted from earth, with figures of men ( also made of earth ) imitating the crew.
Morpheus was probably equated with the Dream-Spirit which Zeus sent to visit Agamemnon in the Iliad ( see Oneiroi ).
On 2 March 1856, Fisher was posted to HMS Agamemnon, and was sent to Constantinople ( now Istanbul ) to join her.
The Agamemnon was sent to investigate, and found the White Star in the atmosphere.
According to Greek legends, the Tauri were the people to whom Iphigeneia was sent after the goddess Artemis rescued her from her father Agamemnon, who was about to sacrifice her to appease Artemis.

Agamemnon and Palamedes
The letter and gold were " discovered ", and Agamemnon had Palamedes stoned to death for treason.
Palamedes before Agamemnon in a 1626 painting by Rembrandt

Agamemnon and Ithaca
Many other tales are based on the aftermath of the war, such as the murder of King Agamemnon of Argos, and the adventures of Odysseus on his return to Ithaca.
Some of the earliest ( eighth century BC ) hero ( and heroine ) cults well attested by archaeological evidence in mainland Greece include shrines in Laconia to Helen and Menelaus ( the Menelaion at Therapne near Sparta ) and one to Agamemnon together with Cassandra at Mycenae, or Alexandra at Amyklai, perhaps a shrine to Odysseus in Polis Bay, Ithaca.

Agamemnon and Odysseus
In Book 9, Agamemnon and the other Mycenaean chiefs send Ajax, Odysseus and Phoenix to the tent of Achilles in an attempt to reconcile with the great warrior and induce him to return to the fight.
He goes to a flock of sheep and slaughters them, imagining they are the Achaean leaders, including Odysseus and Agamemnon.
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 ).
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.
Homer referred to select young men as kouretes, when Agamemnon instructs Odysseus to pick out kouretes, the bravest among the Achaeans " to bear gifts to Achilles.
Helen identifies Agamemnon, Odysseus, Telamonian ( Greater ) Ajax, and Idomeneus.
Finally Odysseus persuaded Agamemnon to let the burial happen.
Among the contenders were Odysseus, Ajax the great, Diomedes, Achilles, Patroclus, Idomeneus, and both Menelaus and Agamemnon.
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.
However, when Agamemnon uses the same kind of taunting to Odysseus, the latter responds with anger.
Diomedes and Odysseus were Agamemnon ’ s most trusted officers.
Seeing this, all the great Achaean warriors — including the two Ajaxes, Agamemnon, Idomeneus and Odysseus — took flight.
This proposal was approved by both Agamemnon and Odysseus.
Book XIV-The wounded kings ( Diomedes, Agamemnon and Odysseus ) held council with Nestor regarding the possibility of Trojan army reaching their ships.
Agamemnon proposed drawing the ships on the beach into the water but Odysseus rebuked him and pointed out the folly of such council.
Philoctetes hated Odysseus, Agamemnon and Menelaus, because they were responsible for leaving him behind.
Achilles then organized an athletic competition to honour his dead companion, which included a chariot race ( won by Diomedes ), boxing ( won by Epeios ), wrestling ( a draw between Telamonian Aias and Odysseus ), a foot race ( won by Odysseus ), a duel ( a draw between Aias and Diomedes ), a discus throw ( won by Polypoites ), an archery contest ( won by Meriones ), and a javelin throw ( won by Agamemnon, unopposed ).
The title derives from Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to Odysseus: " As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades.
Odysseus ( Sean Bean ), a king commanded by Agamemnon, visits Phtia to persuade Achilles to fight, and finds him training with Patroclus ( Garrett Hedlund ), his cousin.
He says that Cassandra will be given to Agamemnon and that Hecuba herself will be given to Odysseus.

Agamemnon and who
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.
The whole charge was sometimes said to have been an invention of Agamemnon, who wanted to have Cassandra for himself.
Among the loot from these cities was Briseis, from Lyrnessus, who was awarded to him, and Chryseis, from Hypoplacian Thebes, who was awarded to Agamemnon.
According to Apollodorus, Agamemnon brought the Wine Growers, daughters of Anius, son of Apollo, who had the gift of producing by touch wine, wheat, and oil from the earth, in order to relieve the supply problem of the army.
Agamemnon refused, and insulted Chryses, who prayed to Apollo to avenge his ill-treatment.
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.
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.
The suitor who won was Menelaus ( Tyndareus, not to displease the powerful Agamemnon offered him another daughter Clytaemnestra ).
" Not all poets took Iphigenia and Iphianassa to be two names for the same heroine ," Kerenyi remarks, " though it is certain that to begin with they served indifferently to address the same divine being, who had not belonged from all time to the family of Agamemnon.
The deus ex machina salvation in some versions of Iphigeneia ( who was about to be sacrificed by her father Agamemnon ) and her replacement with a deer by the goddess Artemis, may be a vestigial memory of the abandonment and discrediting of the practice of human sacrifice among the Greeks in favour of animal sacrifice.
Their ancestry derives from Vorian Atreides who was the son ( via insemination ) of the leader of the cymeks who gave himself the pseudonym Agamemnon.
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.
Helen's favourite was Menelaus who, according to some sources, did not come in person but was represented by his brother Agamemnon, who chose to support his brother's case, and himself married Helen's sister Clytemnestra instead.
Agamemnon compensates himself for this loss by taking Briseis from Achilles, an act that offends Achilles, who refuses to take further part in the Trojan War.
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.
He was cursed by Agamemnon and subsequently punished by Apollo, who beat him in a musical contest ( similar to that between Apollo and Marsyas, to see who was a better musician with a lyre ) and killed him, whereupon Cinyras ' fifty daughters threw themselves into the sea and were changed into sea birds.

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