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Sentence Examples Iphigenia was sacrificed to the goddess Artemis by Agamemnon so that the Greek fleet could sail away to Troy. Eager to attack Troy, Agamemnon kills her, and the Greeks are given favorable winds for their ships. Howbeit he abode amid his beaked, seafaring ships in utter wrath against Agamemnon, Atreus' son, shepherd of the host. The antistrophe, which contains the words of Agamemnon, is spoken by a single male voice. Her Agamemnon is both divinely doomed and a moral hypocrite who combines protestations of paternal love with dalliance with a Greek war-widow. The spellcheck didn't like 34G and asked if I wanted to change it to Agamemnon. The finds from the Shaft Graves at Mycenae contained massive quantities of gold and silver plate, including the gold death mask of Agamemnon. Even the richly embroidered crimson tapestry on which Agamemnon sacrilegiously treads is at best suitable for cutting up into dishcloths. Agamemnon only hides behind that pretext, however, as his real aim is to extend control over the Aegean region. Athene intervenes to check his urge to kill Agamemnon on the spot, and he withdraws in a sulk from the fighting. If they wish to proceed, Agamemnon will first have to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But when Spartan Princess Helen cuckolds Menelaus with Trojan Prince Paris, warmongering Agamemnon uses it as an excuse for launching an all out war on Troy. Menelaus prevails upon Agamemnon, his brother, to declare war on Troy, which has always stood just outside the grasp of the power-hungry Greek ruler. Pages of stories of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra, Oedipus and Antigone clog up her stream of consciousness. The fleet is becalmed at Aulis after its first abortive attempt because Agamemnon has angered the goddess Artemis by killing a stag in her sacred grove. Treasury of Atreus, also called Tomb of Agamemnon, a beehive, or tholos, tomb built about 1350 to 1250 bc at Mycenae, Greece. To recover Helen, the Greeks launched a great expedition under the overall command of Menelaus's brother, Agamemnon, king of Árgos or Mycenae. In Agamemnon, the chorus flees in a panic when Cassandra prophesies the king will be killed. In Agamemnon, by the Greek poet and dramatist Aeschylus, however, Clytemnestra was made to do the killing. Agamemnon and Menelaus are on their way to Troy to bring back Menelaus' wife Helen, who has been abducted. Show More Sentences Menelaus mobilized the Greek princes to free his wife, and chose Agamemnon to lead the army. It is an adaptation of Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides, about the prospective sacrifice of Iphigenia by her father Agamemnon. During the war Menelaus served under his elder brother Agamemnon, the commander in chief of the Greek forces. On the right wall Agamemnon covers his face so as not to see his daughter's killing. The Deep Water left Egmont at about 1000 Pacific standard time2 and proceeded north to the Agamemnon Channel. Agamemnon did not really agree with this and went on a fight with Achilles. His reply to Agamemnon is not couched in quite the same terms, but his scornful refusal to retreat swells with the same battle pride of the warrior as the others. We amplified the scene with Agamemnon to let people understand that Achilles is not acting out of pettiness. Agamemnon maintains that his blindness was an act of the gods. She was worshiped, as Alexandra, with Agamemnon. As with the tyrannicide, the matricide is explainable in terms of Clytemnestra's murder of Agamemnon and Apollo's divine mandate. It was a poetic description of a warscene in Agamemnon that inspired me to write this story. It was a text I read to a young Chechnyan girl I met in a French language centre in Marseille. After a tour around the Dardanelles picking up troops and baggage, Agamemnon returned to England, where the crew were paid off. Over the ice track of FIBT Diamond Cup Final, we are pleased to announce you the victory of Methakgool who arrived first, just before Trublion, Agamemnon, Fawkes and Hoarauleta! Metaphors are unresolved and polysemic, a fact skilfully recognised by Icke when he has his characters debate the multiple possible meanings of the famous omen, in Agamemnon, of two eagles killing a pregnant hare. Upon his return, Clytemnestra and Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon. The fleet assembled at the port of Aulis in Boeotia but was prevented from sailing by calms or contrary winds that were sent by the goddess Artemis because Agamemnon had in some way offended her. The death of Iphigenia brought a favourable wind for Agamemnon. Upon Agamemnon's return, his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover, Aegisthus, kill Agamemnon. Inspired by the play by Aeschylus, during the sixties he set the tragic story of Agamemnon, Clytemnestra and their son Orestes to music: a family tragedy about assassination and revenge, vendetta and justice. Show More Sentences After delivering the dispatches to Sardinia, Agamemnon arrived at Naples in early September. One such involuntary sacrifice is found in the story of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, the famous Greek king and warrior. Aeschylus's own Oresteia, for instance, chooses as its starting point the nostos, the return home, of the victorious general Agamemnon after the siege of Troy. After making repairs, Nelson and Agamemnon sailed again on 26 October, bound for Tunis with a squadron under Commodore Robert Linzee. On 4 July Agamemnon sailed from St Fiorenzo with a small force of frigates and sloops, bound for Genoa. Although most of the Greek army is in favour of the offer, Agamemnon refuses. Under pressure, Agamemnon agrees to return Chryseis to her father, but decides to take Achilles' captive, Briseis, as compensation. Angered, Achilles declares that he and his men will no longer fight for Agamemnon but will go home. Agamemnon heeds the dream but decides to first test the Greek army's morale, by telling them to go home. When Agamemnon takes Briseis from Achilles, he takes away a portion of the kleos he had earned. She took Aegisthus as her lover while Agamemnon was away at war. In 1981, Connery appeared in the film Time Bandits as Agamemnon. Achilles asks his mother to ask Zeus to bring the Greeks to the breaking point by the Trojans, so Agamemnon will realize how much the Greeks need Achilles. On his arrival, Nelson was given command of a small squadron consisting of Agamemnon, three frigates and a sloop, and ordered to blockade the French garrison on Corsica. Early on the morning of 22 October 1793, Agamemnon sighted five sails. Chryses, a Trojan priest of Apollo, offers the Greeks wealth for the return of his daughter Chryseis, held captive of Agamemnon, the Greek leader. This successful homecoming is unlike Achilles, who has fame but is dead, and Agamemnon, who had an unsuccessful homecoming resulting in his death. For example, there are multiple passages in the Iliad with commanders such as Agamemnon or Nestor discussing the arraying of troops so as to gain an advantage. Aeschylus' trilogy, the Oresteia, comprising Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, follows the story of Agamemnon after his return from the war. Examples from Classical Literature Your father Peleus bade me go with you when he sent you as a mere lad from Phthia to Agamemnon. The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon. And he shows Aegisthus tyrannical, who killed Agamemnon and lorded over Mycenae. The Agamemnon, the Oedipus, the Bacchae are not to be explained wholly by them. Is it that thou mayest witness the insolence of Agamemnon, the son of Atreus? Jove sends a dream to Agamemnon, in consequence of which he re-assembles the army. The Trojans proceed to the battle, while Agamemnon exhorts the chieftains of the Greeks. Agamemnon distinguishes himself, but, being wounded, retires from the field. On the other side the Achaeans brought Ajax elated with victory to Agamemnon. How dare you gibe at Agamemnon because the Danaans have awarded him so many prizes? My good friend, did not Menoetius charge you thus, on the day when he sent you from Phthia to Agamemnon? We were taken to the top storey, where Haden was working on the mezzotint of the Breaking up of the Agamemnon. These may have been worn by King Agamemnon, or by the Trojan warriors. Thus spoke Thersites, reviling Agamemnon, the shepherd of the people. The son of Jason freighted them with ten thousand measures of wine, which he sent specially to the sons of Atreus, Agamemnon and Menelaus. This was the chief of all the hosts, Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and Argos. Agamemnon sacrificed their third child, Iphigenia, so that the wind would turn and the Greek fleet could leave Aulis for the Trojan War. Agamemnon and the other wounded chiefs visit the battle with Nestor. Thus he spoke, nor did Agamemnon, king of men, refuse compliance. She's the girl who vows to avenge the death of her father, Agamemnon, at the hands of his wife, Queen Klytemnestra, and her lover Aegisthus. Show More Sentences Achilles accuses Agamemnon of drunkenness, greed, and poltroonery. There, Agamemnon, in command of the Achaian host, is unable to launch the great invasion of Troy for want of wind to propel his armada. It is worth remembering that Agamemnon obeyed a kind of divine order in book I as well, after the god Apollo sent a plague to the Achaian army. He also conversed with the ill-fated Agamemnon, Patroclus, and Achilles. Divide your men, Agamemnon, into their several tribes and clans, that clans and tribes may stand by and help one another. So it is that the furies help Orestes to wreak vengeance on his mother, Clytaemnestra, for killing his father, Agamemnon. Was Menelaus away from Achaean Argos, voyaging elsewhither among mankind, that Aegisthus took heart and killed Agamemnon? But Agamemnon first rushed on, for he wished to fight far before all. Patroclus carries away Lycaon to Lemnos and sells him as a slave, and out of the spoils Achilles receives Briseis as a prize, and Agamemnon Chryseis. The son of Peleus went back to his tents and ships with the son of Menoetius and his company, while Agamemnon drew a vessel into the water and chose a crew of twenty oarsmen. King Agamemnon of Mycenae dies at the hands of his queen, while King Diomedes of Argos gets wind of his wife's plans to kill him and flees in search of a new kingdom. Atreus, when he died, left it to Thyestes, rich in flocks, and Thyestes in his turn left it to be borne by Agamemnon, that he might be lord of all Argos and of the isles. He would even have set fire to the ships and burned them, had not Queen Juno put it into the mind of Agamemnon, to bestir himself and to encourage the Achaeans. Agamemnon could not be got to show in his classical tunic, but stood in the background with Aegisthus and others of the performers of the little play. Then the princes of the Achaeans took the son of Peleus to Agamemnon, but hardly could they persuade him to come with them, so wroth was he for the death of his comrade. And truly Castor and strong Polydeuces would have made him their brother perforce, but Agamemnon, being son-in-law to Tyndareus, wooed her for his brother Menelaus. 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