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Agamemnon
son of Atreus in Greek mythology
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Not who you're looking for? Others named Agamemnon: play by Aeschylus; part 1 of the Oresteia · epithet of Zeus · 1738 tragedy by the British writer James Thomson · tragedy by Seneca
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Achaeans during the Trojan War. He was the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra, and the father of Iphigenia, Iphianassa, Electra, Laodike, Orestes and Chrysothemis. Legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. Agamemnon was killed upon his return from Troy by Clytemnestra, or in an older version of the story, by Clytemnestra's lover Aegisthus.
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