Biography Agamemnon

Agamemnon – one of the main characters of the Greek national epic, the son of Atreus and the Mycenean king Eropy and brother of Menelaus. He escaped by killing his father's nephew Aegisthus, son of Tiesto and the accession of the latter, together with his brother in Sparta. Here the brothers married daughters of the Spartan lad Tindara, AL on Clytemnestra, Menelaus on – Helen.

Upon the death of Tindara, the throne passed to Menelaus. With the help of his brother, A. Tiesto overthrew the throne and reigned at Mycenae. Later, he expanded his possessions and to become a mighty ruler in Greece. In the Trojan War he belonged to the main command of all troops. Because of the beautiful captive Breezy had emerged discord with Achilles. Fate pursued all his family, beginning with the founder of Tantalus and ending by the AA and his children – Iphigenia and Orestes.

On his return with Cassandra, one of the daughters of Priam, taken in the booty he had died by the hands of Aegisthus (Homer) – or his wife – according to other sources (tragedy). – The same fate suffered and Cassandra. The courage, nobility and royal grandeur distinguished, according to Homer, this husband.

A sad fate and doom him in particular was a favorite theme of ancient tragedies. In Iphigenia in AA was still 2 or 3 daughters.

The place of his burial is called Mykonos and Amikle. In Sparta A. worshiped. Girona was kept as a shrine, his scepter – a work of Hephaestus. A. Images are often found in monuments of art, but only very rarely in the foreground.