. are likened toTragedians, who make him reign sometimes at those of Zeus, his girdle to that of Ares, andMycenae, sometimes at Argos. Stesichorus, Si- his breast to that of Poseidon. The emblem ofmonides, and Pindar (Ncm. viii. 12), place him his power is a sceptre, the work of Hephaestus,at Spnrta. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, which Zeus had once given to Hermes, andwas carried off by Paris, and the Greek chiefs Hermes to Pelops, from whom it descended toresolved to recover her by force of arms, Aga- Agamemnon. At the capture
. are likened toTragedians, who make him reign sometimes at those of Zeus, his girdle to that of Ares, andMycenae, sometimes at Argos. Stesichorus, Si- his breast to that of Poseidon. The emblem ofmonides, and Pindar (Ncm. viii. 12), place him his power is a sceptre, the work of Hephaestus,at Spnrta. When Helen, the wife of Menelaus, which Zeus had once given to Hermes, andwas carried off by Paris, and the Greek chiefs Hermes to Pelops, from whom it descended toresolved to recover her by force of arms, Aga- Agamemnon. At the capture of Troy he re-memnon was chosen their commander-in-chief, ceived Cassandra, the daughter of Priam, asAfter two years of preparation, the Greek army I his prize. On his return home he was murderedand fleet assembled in the port of Aulis in I by Aegisthus, who had seduced ClytemnestraBoeotia. According to the Cypria there was during the absence of her husband. Pindarfirst an unsuccessful expedition [see Telephus], and the tragic poets make Clytemnestra murder. Agamemnon. f!~rom a bas-relief.) 54 AMEMNONIDES Agamemnon with her own hand, and instead ofthe murder being at the banquet, as in the epicpoets and in Livius Andronicus (Ribbeck, 28), the Greek Tragedians describe themurder in the bath. Her motive is in Aeschy-lus her jealousy of Cassandra, in Sophocles andEuripides her wrath at the death of tomb is said to be at Mycenae in Paus. 6; but at Amyclae (Paus. iii. 19, 6) therewas also a /xurnxa in a temple of Alexandra, whois said to be the same as Cassandra. He seemsto have been worshipped not merely as a herobut in some places to have been a representa-tive of Zeus-. In Sparta a Zeus Aya/ie/xvcou wasworshipped (Lycophr. 335, 1123, 1369, Tsetz).In art he appears as a bearded man as in theabove drawing from a very ancient bas-relieffrom Samothrace, which represents Agamem-non seated, with his two heralds Talthybius andEpeus standing behind him. Agamemn
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