Talk:Agamemnon

message: Is the rod of rule really associated with Agamemnon, and what is the source for this information? --JW1805 7 July 2005 22:34 (UTC)
Removed "Are you stupid?" David F 04:17, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rod of Rule? 

message: Just because the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article is public domain doesn't mean that it has to be copied nearly word for word onto Wikipedia.  Be more creative.  --Harlsbottom 11:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style/Substance 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating 

message: does any one else think "Atreus was murdered by Aegisthus and his wife Clytaemnestra, who took possession of the throne of Mycenae and ruled jointly with his own father Thyestes. During this period Agamemnon and his brother, Menelaus, took refuge with Tyndareus, king of Sparta. There they respectively married Tyndareus's daughters Clytemnestra and Helen. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra had four children: two sons, Orestes and Chrysothemis, and two daughters, Iphigenia and Electra. 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." is incorrect?  Even if you knew nothing about these people, there seems to be some awkward chronology somewhere.
Also, Clytaemnestra  and Aegisthus successfully murdered Agamemnon, this is the Greek tale that most of us hear.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.64.147.63 (talk) 18:38, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency in "Early Life" section 

message: Would you say that calling him a hero is the wrong usage of the word? Is he a demigod?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.22.226.238 (talk) 03:35, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: One does not have to be a demigod to be a hero.(Huey45 (talk) 06:50, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hero 

message: The text says "Hittite sources mention URU Akagamunaš" -- can anyone tell me what "URU" means? Thanks. -- four tildes Geĸrίtzl (talk) 21:58, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: See Cities of the Ancient Near East for an explanation.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 08:22, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  URU 

message: Can we leave Greek names as they are instead of trying to Latinize them? Greek names end in -os (Menelaos), or -as (Atreas) or in several other ways, but not in -us. Latins changed them to make them consistent with their own names, but there is no need whatsoever to get our information about Greece and Greek names through Latin and not directly from Greek. London is London and not Londinium, Beijing is Beijing and not Peking, so can we please respect the names of my ancestors and leave them as they were? Thank you very much.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.66.200.1 (talk) 12:55, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a great suggestion. This article needs tons of work. El Cubedo (talk) 18:39, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  -os/as/es but not -us 

message: Hi. As a part of a class project, I was tasked with editing an article relating to what we had learned in class. After reading of The Iliad in class, I chose to do edits on this particular page. The edits will not change anything major nor will they remove any previously added information. I am just adding some information based on what I think would help to improve the page as a whole, filling in gaps as I see fit. I hope this is OK.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ptorres19 (talk • contribs) 00:59, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page editing 

message: I removed: "Hittite sources mention Akagamunaš, ruler of Ahhiyawa (land of Achaeans) in the 14th century BC.[4][5] This is a possible prototype of the Agamemnon of mythology, or at least the source of his name." Of the two citations, the first one rejects the idea of a possible connection, and although I haven't read the second one I'm confident it is is rather old (I believe the copyright date must refer to the completion of the last volume but Agamemnon was in the first volume written in the 1920s).  We now know that Akagamunaš was a misreading and should be Kagamuna, and know that "A small gap in the text at this point makes it uncertain whether Kagamuna is the ancestor of the Ahhiyawan king (the letter writer) or the Assuwan king." and Melchert "regards this [Agamemnon] suggestion as even less plausible than the Kadmos proposal". (Yes, it's also been suggested that Kagamuna = Cadmus.) Therefore, believing this is a theory that's not not taken seriously by modern scholars, I don't believe it merits mention. Peter Gulutzan (talk) 17:08, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical prototype 

message: I've been working on filling out the article some in my sandbox and on Monday the 7th was going to introduce my edits. I'll be adding a section on the Curse of House Atreus, and depictions of Agamemnon in Media and Art (mostly famous paintings he appears in and his portrayals in film and television). I also split the section on the Trojan War into three sub-sections: 'Sailing for Troy' 'The Iliad' and 'End of the War'. I added the tale about Palamedes being framed by Odysseus and Agamemnon's role, as well as the death of Ajax and him cursing the sons of Atreus. I mostly left alone any content already present on the article though I did move some things around and rewrote a couple sentences to make them flow better.  Random2187 (talk) 20:00, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Content and some Reformatting 

message: — Assignment last updated by Lemurred (talk) 20:31, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Rethinking Revenge