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| Commander of the [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] expeditionary force attacking [[Troy]] during the [[Trojan War]], and one of the soldiers inside the [[Trojan horse]]. His dispute with [[Achilles]] over the concubine [[Briseis]] is central to the ''[[Iliad]]''. He sacrifices his daughter [[Iphigeneia]] to get good weather to sail to Troy, but on his return after the war, his wife [[Clytemnestra]] kills him. Source: [[Elizabeth Vandiver]], [[Classics]] [[scholarship|scholar]], authority on [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] [[mythology]] as well as [[Greek tragedy]], the ''[[Iliad]]'', ''[[Odyssey]]'', ''[[Aeneid]]'', [[Homer]], and [[Virgil]]. This definition is based on her course ''Classical Mythology'' for [[The Teaching Company]].
| | High King of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces attacking Troy. |
Latest revision as of 16:21, 13 November 2015
High King of Mycenae and commander of the Greek forces attacking Troy.
