About Agamemnon     After being driven out of Mycenae by Thyestes, Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus went to Sparta.   With help from King Tyndareus of Sparta, Agamemnon is restored to the throne of Mycenae.  There Agamemnon marries Clytemnestra, daughter of King Tyndareus, and has four children Iphigenia, Chrysothemis, Electra, and Orestes.  When Helen was abducted by Paris, Agamemnon became the head of the Greek forces. So he left Mycenae and his wife for ten years to fight the Trojans. At Aulis, where the Greek ships assembled, Agamemnon, having angered Artemis by slaying a stag sacred to her, was forced to appease the goddess by the sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia.  While he was gone Clytemnestra took Aegisthus, her husband's arch-rival, for her lover.  On his return home he was murdered in the bath by Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. Back to Family Tree Back to Literature Index