Agamemnon
Agamemnon,in mythology son of Atreus (or, occasionally, of Atreus' son Pleisthenes), brother of Menelaus, and husband of Clytemnestra; king of Mycenae, or Argos, and, in Homer, commander-in-chief of the Greek expedition against Troy, taking with him 100 ships, the largest single contingent (Iliad 2. 569–80). He had a son, Orestes, and three daughters, Chrysothemis, Laodice, Iphianassa (Iliad 9.145); Iphigenia, whom Homer does not mention, seems to be a later substitution for Iphianassa, as does Electra for Laodice (Xanthus, fr. 700 Poetae Melici Graeci).
Homer depicts Agamemnon as a man of personal valour, but lacking resolution and easily discouraged. His quarrel with Achilles, who withdrew in anger and hurt pride from battle when Agamemnon took away his concubine Briseis, supplies the mainspring of the Iliad's action, with Achilles'...
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