Herodotus' Histories

Agamemnon

Family: Greek · Role: father of Orestes · First appears: Book 1 · §67–71

Book 1 · §67–71

  • child: Orestes “what god they should propitiate in order to get the better of the men of Tegea in the war: and the Pythian prophetess made answer to them that they should bring into their land the bones of Orestes the son of Agamemnon.”

Book 4 · §95–103

  • child: Iphigeneia “Iphigeneia the daughter of Agamemnon”

Book 7 · §129–136

  • with Talthybios (Talthybios is identified as Agamemnon's herald.) “on the Lacedemonians however the wrath fell of Talthybios, the herald of Agamemnon;”
  • employer: Talthybios (Talthybios is identified as Agamemnon’s herald.) “on the Lacedemonians however the wrath fell of Talthybios, the herald of Agamemnon;”

Book 7 · §156–162

  • parent: Pelops “Deeply, I trow, would Agamemnon son of Pelops lament,”

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