During this period Agamemnon and his brother, Menelaus, took refuge with Tyndareus, King of Sparta.

Agamemnon was forced to return Chryseis to end the plague, and took Achilles ' concubine Briseis as his own.

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

" 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.

According to Aeschylus, Orestes saw Electra's face before the tomb of Agamemnon, where both had gone to perform rites to the dead ; a recognition took place, and they arranged how Orestes should accomplish his revenge.

During the Trojan War ( prior to the actions described in Homer's Iliad ), Agamemnon took Chryses ' daughter Chryseis ( Astynome ) from Moesia as a war prize and when Chryses attempted to ransom her, refused to return her.

Seeing this, all the great Achaean warriors — including the two Ajaxes, Agamemnon, Idomeneus and Odysseus — took flight.

However, the Agamemnon ran aground before entering the channel, and took no part in the battle.

The village is named after one of the two girls Agamemnon took from Lesbos during the ten-year Trojan War.

Sheridan then took command of the EAS Agamemnon, and set the fleet on course for Mars.

Now 40 years old, Bouboulina took over his fortune and his trading business and had four more ships built at her own expense, including the large warship Agamemnon.

A few months after Sheridan's transfer the Agamemnon took part in his rescue from the Streib.

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.

Panel 42 – Telephus threatens to kill Orestes, whom he took hostage to force Agamemnon to heal him

The most celebrated of his works was a picture representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia, in which he finely depicted the emotions of those who took part in the sacrifice ; however, despairing of rendering the grief of Agamemnon, he represented him as veiling his face.

Through the use of preserved reproductive material ( frozen sperm ) and selective breeding with slave women, the Titan Agamemnon was able to produce offspring ; however, his contempt for humans and his incredibly high standards often led to the destruction of said offspring.

* Agamemnon " Aggy "-A slave of the Judge

Patroclus carries away Lycaon to Lemnos and sells him as a slave, and out of the spoils Achilles receives Briseis as a prize, and Agamemnon Chryseis.

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.

He was reconciled with Agamemnon and received Briseis back, untouched by Agamemnon.

According to Book 1 of the Iliad, when Agamemnon was compelled by Apollo to give up his own woman, Chryseis, he demanded Briseis as compensation.

This prompted a quarrel with Achilles that culminated with Briseis ' delivery to Agamemnon and Achilles ' protracted withdrawal from battle.

Achilles is angry at Agamemnon, and seethes with rage in his tent: made furious by the thought of Agamemnon sleeping with Briseis.

When Achilles returns to the fighting to avenge Patroclus ' death and Agamemnon returns Briseis to him, Agamemnon swears to Achilles that he and Briseis never shared a bed.

* In Ovid's Heroides, an apocryphal letter from Briseis to Achilles makes up the third entry, in which she reproaches him for both giving her up too easily to Agamemnon, and being tardy in gaining her return.

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.

Agamemnon gives Briseis to his men, but Achilles rescues her.

Achilles searches for Briseis, who is being threatened by Agamemnon.

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.

Christa Wolf provides another degraded future for the character in Cassandra by once more naming her Briseis and including the Homeric story of her slavery to Achilles and Agamemnon.

As written in Homer's Iliad, Diomede was a mistress of Achilles, taken up after the seizure of Briseis by King Agamemnon.

Achilles in The Iliad when Agamemnon decides to take Briseis or Oedipus in Oedipus Rex are examples of characters without sophrosyne.

Any reading of the Kypria will show it preparing for events for ( specifically ) the Iliad in order to refer back to them, for instance the sale of Lykaon to Lemnos or the kitting out of Achilles with Briseis and Agamemnon with Chryseis ".

* Agamemnon acts in greed when he takes Briseis away from Achilles: The Iliad

Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: one son, Orestes, and three daughters, Iphigenia, Electra and Chrysothemis.

From Aeschylus ' Agamemnon, it appears that she has made a promise to Apollo to become his consort, but broke it, thus incurring his wrath: though she has retained the power of foresight, no one will believe her predictions.

While Cassandra foresaw the destruction of Troy ( she warned the Trojans about the Trojan Horse, the death of Agamemnon, and her own demise ), she was unable to do anything to forestall these tragedies since no one believed her.

They later had two children, Andromache and Agamemnon Schliemann ; he reluctantly allowed them to be baptized, but solemnized the ceremony in his own way by placing a copy of the Iliad on the children's heads and reciting one hundred hexameters.

Upon discovering a human skull beneath a gold death mask in one of the tombs, he declared: " I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon ".

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.

There is one moment in the play where Agamemnon regrets his decision and tries to send another letter telling them not to come, however Menelaus intercepts the letter.

The word Atreides refers to one of the sons of Atreus — Agamemnon and Menelaus.

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.

When they cast lots to choose one among those warriors, the Achaeans prayed " Father Zeus, grant that the lot fall on Ajax, or on the son of Tydeus, or upon Agamemnon.

This was one of the sources of the curse that destroyed his family: two of his sons, Atreus and Thyestes, killed a third, Chrysippus, who was his favorite son and was meant to inherit the kingdom ; Atreus and Thyestes were banished by him together with Hippodamia, their mother, who then hanged herself ; each successive generation of descendants suffered greatly by atrocious crimes and compounded the curse by committing more crimes, as the curse weighed upon Pelops ' children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren including Atreus, Thyestes, Agamemnon, Aegisthus, Menelaus, and finally Orestes, who was acquitted by a court of law convened by the gods Athena and Apollo.

As Kevin recovers, he finds one of the firemen resembles Agamemnon, and discovers that he still has the photos from his adventure.

Of his original plates, more than 250 in number, one of the most notable was the large Breaking up of the Agamemnon.

From his knowledge of classical literature came several poems from this volume, including a poetic drama based on the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, and a cycle of seven poems, each for one of the Muses.

Agamemnon, for example, can say: To me the proof that I am not violating my fatherly duty is that my duty is my one and only wish.

The earliest known reference to the idea that swans sing one beautiful song before dying first appears in Aeschylus ' Agamemnon from 458 BC.

Five ships ( and one submarine under construction ) of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Agamemnon, after the legendary Greek king Agamemnon.

The Agamemnon was one of the new " Omega-Class " destroyers which were much larger and more powerful than the older " Hyperion-Class " warships.

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.

The Agamemnon was one of the first Omega class starships to be built by EarthForce following the Earth-Minbari War.

Vorian was the thirteenth son of the Titan Agamemnon, one of the twenty Titans who conquered the Old Empire, and was a Human Trustee in Omnius ' Machine Empire.

Charlton Heston's production company, Agamemnon Films ( in association with GoodTimes Entertainment ), produced this version of the story, this one a made-for-video animated version, with Heston himself giving voice to the title character.