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- **Agamemnon **The Libation Bearers (Choephoroi) **The Eumenides ... ====Agamemnon==== [[Image:Murder of agamemnon.jpg|thumb|250px|The Murder ...18 KB (2,989 words) - 05:50, 16 June 2023
- legend, Mycenae was the capital city of Agamemnon, famous for his sacking ... artifacts, including the "mask of Agamemnon." Today, Mycenae is ...18 KB (2,715 words) - 22:40, 10 November 2022
- Actaeon and Chione, and grimly punishes Agamemnon and Niobe, was also the ... In the months leading up to the Trojan War, Agamemnon managed to offend ...26 KB (4,093 words) - 10:51, 16 August 2023
- with the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon, and ends with the funeral ... Chryses, and given her as a prize to Agamemnon. He is compelled to restore ...27 KB (4,051 words) - 17:08, 14 November 2021
- from battle after he is dishonored by Agamemnon, the commander of the Achaean ... the Greeks, Nestor declared that had Agamemnon not angered Achilles, the ...34 KB (5,355 words) - 15:14, 24 December 2023
- claim of Wilhelm Dorpfeld, who argued that Agamemnon’s army destroyed Troy at the time of King Priam, as described in Homer’s Iliad. However, Blegen ...9 KB (1,327 words) - 19:17, 26 November 2023
- His translation of Aeschylus's Agamemnon was published in late 1936 ... * The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1936]) * Out of the Picture (1937) ...17 KB (2,543 words) - 04:06, 4 November 2022
- often particularly negative, as evidenced by Agamemnon's rhetorical question in the Illiad: "Why do we loathe Hades more than any god, if ...23 KB (3,693 words) - 16:36, 21 January 2024
- recalled to service. Given the 64-gun HMS Agamemnon in 1793, he soon started ... the ships blockading the French coast. Agamemnon, often described as Nelson ...22 KB (3,598 words) - 15:08, 2 February 2024
- due to injuries Odysseus persuades Agamemnon not to withdraw. Along ... the king of the dead. Odysseus also meets Agamemnon and his own mother. The ...27 KB (4,422 words) - 23:55, 17 November 2022
- * The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877) * La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878) * Dramatic Idyls (1879) * Dramatic Idyls: Second Series (1880) ...15 KB (2,267 words) - 03:13, 15 December 2022
- Thomson sailed on board the cable-laying ship HMSS Agamemnon in August ... he was given unsatisfactory and the Agamemnon had to return home following ...36 KB (5,321 words) - 20:35, 13 May 2023
- Zeus or Athena), Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers (used in his battle ...15 KB (2,287 words) - 13:45, 9 February 2022
- and the Spartans even had a shrine to Zeus Agamemnon. ===Oracles=== Although most oracle sites were usually dedicated to Apollo, the heroes, ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- * Agamemnon * Thyestes * Oedipus * Hercules Oetaeus (“Hercules on Oeta”): Problematic authorship * Octavia : Problematic authorship ...18 KB (2,996 words) - 09:45, 26 January 2023
- was to be sacrificed by her father Agamemnon for success in the Trojan ... human sacrifice. In terms of literature, Agamemnon, the commander of the Achaeans ...36 KB (5,474 words) - 22:07, 16 August 2022
- murders of Electra's father, the Greek king Agamemnon, and mother, Clytemnestra, both involved in treacherous personal betrayals. The story is was ...23 KB (3,721 words) - 01:18, 4 February 2023
- since Helen was already married to Menelaus. Agamemnon, Helen's brother-in-law and king of Mycenae, took exception to Helen's abduction and ...23 KB (3,678 words) - 06:01, 11 August 2023
- on a single theme. The Oresteia consisting of Agamemnon, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers), and Eumenides is the only surviving trilogy. The Persai ...25 KB (4,056 words) - 17:49, 13 November 2021
- the use of the ekkyklêma is after the murder of Agamemnon in the first play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, when the king's butchered body is wheeled ...26 KB (4,004 words) - 17:24, 6 March 2023