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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.
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.
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.
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.
THE TROJAN WARAgamemnon 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.
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.
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.
CREDITS
-Patricia López
-Birgitte Hennink
-Joanna Latasa
-Sven de Haan
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