Agamemnon
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The so-called Mask of Agamemnon, which was discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae, now believed to pre-date the legendary Trojan War by 300 years In Greek mythology, Agamemnon （/æɡəˈmɛmnɒn/; Greek: Ἀγαμέμνων Agamémnōn） was a king of Mycenae,
the son, or grandson, of King Atreus and Queen Aerope, the brother of Menelaus, the husband of Clytemnestra and the father of Iphigenia, Electra or Laodike （Λαοδίκη）, Orestes and Chrysothemis.
Legends make him the king of Mycenae or Argos, thought to be different names for the same area.
When Menelaus's wife, Helen, was taken to Troy by Paris, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing Trojan War.
Upon Agamemnon's return from Troy, he was killed （according to the oldest surviving account, Odyssey 11.409–11） by Aegisthus, the lover of his wife Clytemnestra.
In old versions of the story, the scene of the murder, when it is specified, is usually the house of Aegisthus, who has not taken up residence in Agamemnon's palace, and it involves an ambush and the deaths of Agamemnon's
followers as well （or it seems to be an ancestral home of both Agamemnon and Aegisthus since Agamemnon's wife is stated to be there as well and Agamemnon was said to have wept and kissed the land of his birth）.
In some later versions Clytemnestra herself does the killing, or she and Aegisthus act together, killing Agamemnon in his own home.
His name in Greek, Ἀγαμέμνων, means "very steadfast", "unbowed" or "very resolute".
The word comes from *Ἀγαμέδμων from ἄγαν, "very much" and μέδομαι, "think on".
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, ...