Agamemnon
Family: Greeks · Role: general · First appears: Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III
Life events
- Agamemnon declares he will meet Hector if no other Greek accepts the challenge.(Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III · 📍 Troy)
- With: Hector
- “If then one is, or hath, or means to be, That one meets Hector; if none else, I am he.”
- The Greek commanders prepare to fight without Achilles.(Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene III)
- With: Achilles
- “You must prepare to fight without Achilles.”
- The Greek commanders resolve to assemble their forces and stand fast at Troy.(Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene III · 📍 Troy)
Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III
- enemies with Aeneas “Yourself shall feast with us before you go, / And find the welcome of a noble foe.”
- rivals with Achilles “The great Achilles, whom opinion crowns / The sinew and the forehand of our host, / Having his ear full of his airy fame, / Grows dainty of his worth, and in his tent / Lies mocking our designs;”
- allies with Nestor “With due observance of thy godlike seat, / Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply / Thy latest words.”
- allies with Ulysses “Great Agamemnon, / This chaos, when degree is suffocate, / Follows the choking.”
- sworn: Ulysses “Agamemnon, / Thou great commander, nerve and bone of Greece, / Heart of our numbers, soul and only spirit / In whom the tempers and the minds of all / Should be shut up—hear what Ulysses speaks.”
- sworn: Nestor “With due observance of thy godlike seat, / Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply / Thy latest words.”
Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene III
- sworn: Achilles “Agamemnon commands Achilles; Achilles is my lord; I am Patroclus’ knower; and Patroclus is a fool.”
Troilus and Cressida · Act IV, Scene V
- siblings with Menelaus “Let me confirm my princely brother’s greeting.”
Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene I
- siblings with Menelaus “Here’s Agamemnon, an honest fellow enough, and one that loves quails, but he has not so much brain as ear-wax; and the goodly transformation of Jupiter there, his brother, the bull, the primitive statue and oblique memorial of cuckolds, a thrifty shoeing-horn in a chain at his brother’s leg, to what form but that he is, should wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit, turn him to? To an ass, were nothing: he is both ass and ox. To an ox, were nothing: he is both ox and ass. To be a dog, a mule, a cat, a fitchook, a toad, a lizard, an owl, a puttock, or a herring without a roe, I would not care; but to be Menelaus, I would conspire against destiny.”
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