Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and Argos who commanded the Greek forces during the Trojan War. He sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to appease the goddess Artemis to allow the expedition to sail to Troy. During the war, he led the Greeks to several victories but faced setbacks due to conflicts with Achilles. Upon his return home, Agamemnon was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, leading to further revenge killings by his son Orestes.

1. Agamemnon

2. Who was agamemnon? He was the king of Mycenae and Argos. He was the one who commanded and finance the expedition to Troy. He was a valiant hero and one of the principal characters in The Iliad.

3. His family His parents were Atreus en Aerope. His brother was Menelaus. His sister was Anaxibia. His wife was Clytemnestra. His sons and daughters were Orestes, Electra, Iphigenia and Chrysothemis. His cousin was Aegisthos.

4. Tantalus He was part of the Tantalus family . Tantalus was the king of little-Asia. He wanted to test the omniscience from the gods, so he invited them for a dinner. And he gave them his own son. But the gods found out and they send him to the underworld. He had to be always hungry and thirsty.

5. Agamemnon punishment Agamemnon haunted Artemis’s favourite deer and the goddess sent to the expedition a plague and she stopped the winds, so the Greeks couldn’t get to Troy. To pleased the goddess, Agamemnon had to sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia so the Greeks could continue the expedition.

6. The Trojan war Agamemnon was the commander-in-chief of the Greeks during the Trojan War. During the fighting, he killed Antiphus and 15 other Trojan soldiers. Agamemnon took an attractive slave, Briseis, from Achilles. Achilles, the greatest warrior of the age, withdrew from battle in revenge and nearly cost the Greek armies the war.

7. The mask The so-called Mask of Agamemnon is a golden death mask in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann in Mycenae during an excavation found. He thought that the mask on the face of King Agamemnon was placed when he laid in his grave. Since then it has become clear that the mask a few centuries older was than the time when Agamemnon would have lived. The golden death mask clears indication of the belief in an afterlife, and it approves that the Mykers are good in forge the gold At this moment the mask is in the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.

8. His death Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife had taken Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, as a lover. When Agamemnon came home he was slain by either Aegisthus (in the oldest versions of the story) or Clytemnestra. Orestes later avenged his father's murder, with the help or encouragement of his sister Electra, by murdering Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.

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