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Agamemnon was the son of Atreus, the king of Mycenae, and his wife Aerope. His brother was Menelaus, king of Sparta and husband of the infamous Helen. Atreus was embroiled in a lifelong rivalry with his own brother, Thyestes. Both men committed terrible atrocities against one another: in one myth, Thyestes slept with Atreus’ wife Aerope, and ...
The Agamemnon is an Attic tragedy by Aeschylus, one of the three canonical tragedians of classical Athens. It was originally produced in 458 BCE for the City Dionysia, an annual dramatic festival in which playwrights would compete to entertain the citizens of Athens. The playdramatizes Clytemnestra ’s murder of her husband Agamemnon after his ...
Clytemnestra was a Greek queen and one of the most famous murderers of Greek mythology. As a daughter of the Spartan king Tyndareus and his wife Leda, her siblings included Helen (who incited the Trojan War) and the heroes known as the Dioscuri. Clytemnestra married Agamemnon, the powerful king of Mycenae, and bore him several children ...
Mythological Context. Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis dramatizes the myth of the sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of the Mycenaean king Agamemnon. The goddess Artemis demanded the girl’s life in exchange for a wind to blow the Greek fleet to Troy. Iphigenia’s story is part of the larger myth of the Trojan War, which broke out when the ...
Iphigenia, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, was a princess of Mycenae (located in the Argolid). As the Greeks were preparing for the Trojan War, the goddess Artemis demanded that Iphigenia be sacrificed to her in exchange for a wind to blow the Greek fleet to Troy. Though initially reluctant, Agamemnon finally agreed to go through with ...
Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, was a central figure in the bloody internal feuding of the Tantalid family. Thyestes and his brother Atreus had long battled over the throne of Mycenae; once Aegisthus was fully grown, he helped his father kill Atreus. The father-son duo briefly ruled over Mycenae before being driven out by Atreus’ son Agamemnon.
Introduction. The Eumenides is an Attic tragedy by Aeschylus, one of the most famous tragedians of classical Athens. It was originally staged in 458 BCE at the City Dionysia, an annual dramatic festival in which playwrights would compete to entertain the citizens of Athens. It serves as the final play of the Oresteia, a trilogy of connected ...
Menelaus, son of Atreus, was a Greek hero and king of Sparta. When his wife Helen ran off with the Trojan prince Paris, Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon raised an army and sailed to Troy to get her back. This marked the beginning of the Trojan War. Menelaus was a prominent leader during the Trojan War, though he was not typically described as ...
Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae and the commander of the Greek army, learned from the prophet Calchas that the winds would only turn if he sacrificed his eldest daughter, Iphigenia, to Artemis. This volute-krater (a bowl used for mixing wine and water) depicts the sacrifice of Iphigenia (c. 370 BCE-350 BCE).
Agamemnon is finally forced to return the girl but takes Achilles’ slave-girl Briseis as compensation, causing Achilles to fly into a rage and withdraw from the war. Achilles then has his mother Thetis , a sea goddess, ask Zeus to cause the Trojans to get the upper hand in the fighting so that the Achaeans realize how much they need him.