Agamemnon

Family: Greek · Role: leader · First appears: The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

In The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae, Agamemnon is named as a child of Pleisthenes and Cleolla, alongside his sibling Menelaus. Clytaemnestra deserted him and lay with Aegisthus, choosing “a worse mate.”

In The Cypria, Agamemnon shot a stag while hunting and boasted that he surpassed Artemis; the goddess responded by sending stormy winds that prevented the Greeks from sailing. Part 2 names Iphigeneia and Iphianassa daughter of Agamemnon as his children.

Relationship record

Life events

• Clytaemnestra deserted Agamemnon and lay with Aegisthus.(The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80)
  • With: Clytaemnestra Aegisthus
  • “and even so Clytaemnestra deserted god-like Agamemnon and lay with Aegisthus and chose a worse mate;”
• Agamemnon shoots a stag and boasts that he surpasses Artemis, prompting her to prevent the Greeks from sailing.(The Cypria · Part 1)
  • “Agamemnon, while at the chase, shot a stag and boasted that he surpassed even Artemis. At this the goddess was so angry that she sent stormy winds and prevented them from sailing.”

The Catalogues of Women and Eoiae · Fragments 61–80

• parent: Pleisthenes “Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.”
• parent: Cleolla “Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.”
• siblings with Menelaus “Agamemnon, Menelaus and Anaxibia were the children of Pleisthenes and Cleolla the daughter of Dias.”
• married with Clytaemnestra “Clytaemnestra deserted god-like Agamemnon”

The Cypria · Part 1

• siblings with Menelaus “Menelaus returns and plans an expedition against Ilium with his brother, and then goes on to Nestor.”

The Cypria · Part 2

• child: Iphigeneia “like the writer of the Cypria—he makes them four, (distinguishing) Iphigeneia and Iphianassa.”
• child: Iphianassa daughter of Agamemnon “like the writer of the Cypria—he makes them four, (distinguishing) Iphigeneia and Iphianassa.”

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