Agamemnon and Clytemnestra's children included Orestes, Iphigenia, Electra, and Chrysothemis. The family was destroyed when Clytemnestra murdered Agamemnon upon his return from Troy, and Orestes later killed her in revenge.
Atreus and Aerope were the parents of Agamemnon and Menelaus. Aerope's affair with Thyestes triggered the curse that devastated the House of Atreus.
After the fall of Troy, Agamemnon took the Trojan princess Cassandra as his captive concubine and brought her to Mycenae, where both were murdered by Clytemnestra.
Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus jointly led the Greek expedition against Troy, with Agamemnon as supreme commander and Menelaus as the wronged husband whose cause united the Greeks.
Nestor, the aged king of Pylos, served as Agamemnon's most trusted elder advisor throughout the Trojan War, offering counsel during the quarrel with Achilles and other crises.
Odysseus quelled the Greek army's mutiny on Agamemnon's behalf and led the embassy to Achilles in Iliad 9. He served as Agamemnon's chief strategist throughout the Trojan War.
In the Iliad, Agamemnon seized Briseis from Achilles to replace his own lost war prize Chryseis, provoking Achilles' devastating withdrawal from the Trojan War.
Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, harbored a blood feud against the House of Atreus. He seduced Clytemnestra during the Trojan War and together they murdered Agamemnon upon his return.
Clytemnestra harbored a decade-long vendetta against Agamemnon for sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia, culminating in his murder upon his return from Troy.
Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon in his bath upon his return from Troy, entangling him in a robe and striking him with an axe, as told in Aeschylus's Agamemnon.
At Aulis, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia on the altar of Artemis to obtain favorable winds for the Greek fleet sailing to Troy.
⚠ Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians and the Cypria (Proclus summary) report that Artemis substituted a deer at the last moment and carried Iphigenia away to Tauris. Aeschylus's Agamemnon treats the sacrifice as completed.
Agamemnon killed Tantalus Thyestid, Clytemnestra's first husband, and seized her as his bride — a violence she never forgave.
Agamemnon ruled Mycenae as the wealthiest and most powerful king in Greece, wielding the scepter Zeus had given through Pelops and Atreus. His authority over the golden citadel made him supreme commander of the Greek expedition to Troy.
In the Iliad, Apollo sent a devastating plague upon the Greek camp to punish Agamemnon for dishonoring his priest Chryses and refusing to return Chryses' daughter.
Artemis demanded the sacrifice of Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia at Aulis as punishment for his offense against the goddess, holding the Greek fleet becalmed until he complied.
Agamemnon seized Briseis from Achilles to compensate for the loss of Chryseis, an act of royal prerogative that ignited the central conflict of the Iliad.
The seer Calchas revealed to Agamemnon that Artemis demanded Iphigenia's sacrifice at Aulis and later identified Chryseis's captivity as the cause of Apollo's plague upon the Greek camp.
Cassandra foresaw Agamemnon's murder at Clytemnestra's hands and warned him during their voyage from Troy. In Aeschylus's Agamemnon, she delivers her prophecy at the palace gates before walking knowingly to her death.
Agamemnon took Chryseis as his war prize at Troy. His refusal to ransom her back to her father Chryses prompted Apollo to send a plague upon the Greek camp, opening the conflict of the Iliad.
Agamemnon consulted the Oracle at Delphi before launching the Greek expedition against Troy, seeking divine approval for the campaign.
The abduction of Helen by Paris compelled Agamemnon to assemble and lead the Greek coalition against Troy to recover his brother Menelaus's wife.
Orestes avenged his father Agamemnon by returning from exile to kill Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, as dramatized in Aeschylus's Choephoroi and the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides.
Agamemnon, as commander of the Greek expedition, authorized the abandonment of Philoctetes on Lemnos after his festering snakebite wound made him unbearable to the army. He later sanctioned the mission to retrieve the archer and his bow.
Telephus came disguised as a beggar to Agamemnon's camp at Argos seeking a cure for his wound. He seized Agamemnon's infant son Orestes as leverage to compel the Greeks to heal him.
Agamemnon commanded the Greek coalition in the Trojan War, leading over a thousand ships. His seizure of Briseis from Achilles provoked the wrath that nearly cost the Greeks victory.
Tyndareus gave his daughter Clytemnestra to Agamemnon in marriage, forging the alliance between Sparta and Mycenae that would later underpin the Greek coalition against Troy.
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