Agamemnon/Definition

Commander of the 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 scholar, authority on 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.