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Agamemnon - King of Mycenae and commander in chief of the coalition that attacked Troy in the Trojan War
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Classics summer work Agamemnon was king of Mycenae and commander in chief of the coalition that attacked Troy in the Trojan War. He was the son of Atreus. When the Greeks had assembled in Aulis for their voyage to Troy, they were held back by adverse winds. To calm the winds, Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis. Clytemnestra was queen of Mycenae, wife of Agamemnon and the daughter of Tyndareus, king of Sparta, and his wife Leda. She bore Agamemnon 4 children: Electra, Iphigenia, Orestes, and Chrysothemis. After the sacrifice of Iphigenia, Clytemnestra's love turned to hatred for Agamemnon, and upon their return from Troy, she and her new lover Aegisthus sought revenge and killed both Agamemnon and his Trojan mistress Cassandra, and ruled with her lover for seven years. Helen of Troy was the most beautiful woman in Greece, daughter of the god Zeus and of Leda, wife of...
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