Agamemnon: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
imported>Peter Jackson No edit summary |
imported>Peter Jackson No edit summary |
||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
In Greek mythology, '''Agamemnon''' was a High King of [[Mycenae]] and commander of the Greek expeditionary force attacking [[Troy]] during the [[Trojan War]]. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to overcome contrary winds to sail to Troy. His dispute with [[Achilles]] over the concubine Briseis is central to the [[Iliad]]. On his return after the war, his wife Clytemnestra killed him to revenge Iphigenia. | In Greek mythology, '''Agamemnon''' was a High King of [[Mycenae]] and commander of the Greek expeditionary force attacking [[Troy]] during the [[Trojan War]]. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to overcome contrary winds to sail to Troy. His dispute with [[Achilles]] over the concubine Briseis is central to the [[Iliad]]. On his return after the war, his wife Clytemnestra killed him to revenge Iphigenia, and to prevent his dicovering about her lover, Aegisthus. | ||
He may well have some historical existence, Akagamunaš, ruler of Ahhiyawa (i.e. the Achaeans, a Homeric name for the Greeks in the Trojan War) being mentioned in Hittite records of about the right period. | He may well have some historical existence, Akagamunaš, ruler of Ahhiyawa (i.e. the Achaeans, a Homeric name for the Greeks in the Trojan War) being mentioned in Hittite records of about the right period. | ||
Revision as of 05:20, 14 November 2015
In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was a High King of Mycenae and commander of the Greek expeditionary force attacking Troy during the Trojan War. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to overcome contrary winds to sail to Troy. His dispute with Achilles over the concubine Briseis is central to the Iliad. On his return after the war, his wife Clytemnestra killed him to revenge Iphigenia, and to prevent his dicovering about her lover, Aegisthus.
He may well have some historical existence, Akagamunaš, ruler of Ahhiyawa (i.e. the Achaeans, a Homeric name for the Greeks in the Trojan War) being mentioned in Hittite records of about the right period.