Agamemnon
Množina: Agamemnons
(Classical mythology) The king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War.
In Greek mythology, a Greek hero of the Trojan wars, son of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and brother of Menelaus. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia in order to secure favorable winds for the Greek expedition against Troy and after a ten years' siege sacked the city, receiving Priam's daughter Cassandra as a prize. On his return home, he and Cassandra were murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His children Orestes and Electra later killed the guilty couple.
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