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agamemnon - (Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War

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agamemnon
In Greek mythology, the son of King Atreus and Queen Aerope of Mycenae.

Agamemnon was a person in Greek mythology. He was the son of King Atreus of Mycenae and Aerope. He was the brother of Menelaos. He was King of Mycenae.

His wife was Klytaimnestra, and with her his children were Iphigeneia, Elektra, Orestes and Chrysothemis.

In the Trojan War he was the highest leader of the Greek armies.

After the Trojan War he took Kassandra as a slave. She warned him that his wife Klytaimnestra would kill him, but he would not believe her. At home, Agamemnon was killed by Klytaimnestra and her lover Aegisthos.