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Agamemnon de Spartae, King of Mycenae
- Preferred Name: Agamemnon de Spartae, King of Mycenae
- Gender: M
- MilitaryService: Trojan War - waged against the city of Troy by the Achaeans (Greeks) after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.BET 1194 BC AND 1184 BC
- MilitaryService: King of Mycenaeuntil 1180 BC
- MilitaryService: commanded the Greeks during the Trojan WarBET 1194 BC AND 1184 BC
- FSID: GWYT-QR1
- MilitaryService: Agamemnon and his new lover Cassandra were murdered - by either ex-wife Clytemnestra, her lover Aegisthus, or bothABT 1180 BC
- Death: ABT 1180 BC in Mycenae, Argolis, Greece at LATI: N7.6667 LONG: E2.8333
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Agamemnon (/æɡəˈmɛmnɒn/; Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn) was a king of Mycenae who commanded the Greeks during the Trojan War. He was the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra, Laodike (Λαοδίκη), Orestes and Chrysothemis. Legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area. Agamemnon was killed upon his return from Troy, either by his wife's lover Aegisthus or by his wife herself.
Agamemnon was a descendant of Pelops, son of Tantalus. According to the usual version of the story, followed by the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer, Agamemnon and his younger brother Menelaus were the sons of Atreus, king of Mycenae, and Aerope, daughter of the Cretan king Catreus. However, according to another tradition, Agamemnon and Menelaus were the sons of Atreus' son Pleisthenes, with their mother being Aerope, Cleolla, or Eriphyle. According to this tradition Pleisthenes died young, with Agamemnon and Menelaus being raised by Atreus. Agamemnon had a sister Anaxibia (or Astyoche) who married Strophius, the son of Crisus.
Agamemnon's father, Atreus, murdered the sons of his twin brother Thyestes and fed them to Thyestes after discovering Thyestes' adultery with his wife Aerope. Thyestes fathered Aegisthus with his own daughter, Pelopia, and this son vowed gruesome revenge on Atreus' children. Aegisthus murdered Atreus, restored Thyestes to the throne, and took possession of the throne of Mycenae and jointly ruled with his father. During this period, Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus took refuge with Tyndareus, King of Sparta.
There they respectively married Tyndareus' daughters Clytemnestra and Helen. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: one son, Orestes, and three daughters, Iphigenia, Electra, and Chrysothemis. Menelaus succeeded Tyndareus in Sparta, while Agamemnon, with his brother's assistance, drove out Aegisthus and Thyestes to recover his father's kingdom. He extended his dominion by conquest and became the most powerful prince in Greece.
Agamemnon's family history had been tarnished by murder, incest, and treachery, consequences of the heinous crime perpetrated by his ancestor, Tantalus, and then of a curse placed upon Pelops, son of Tantalus, by Myrtilus, whom he had murdered. Thus misfortune hounded successive generations of the House of Atreus, until atoned by Orestes in a court of justice held jointly by humans and gods.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agamemnon
Preferred Parents:
Father: Atreus King of Mycenae , b. in Sipylos, Lydia d. 1250 BC in Mycenae, Greece
Mother: Queen Aerope of Mycenae , b. in Crete, Greece
Family 1: Cassandra Troy, b. 1230 BC d. in Lazio, Italy
Family 2: Clytemnestra Von Sparta, b. ABT 1240 BC d. ABT 1175 BC
- descend from the Greek king Agamemnon,
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