Agamemnon, King of Mycenae in Greek mythology, elder brother of King Menelaos of Sparta, the commander who led the armies to the Trojan war. He is the son of Atreus and Aerope. When the Greek armies gathered in Avlid to set out for Troy, since there was no wind, Agamemnon decided to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia so that Artemis, the Goddess of the Hunt, could free the winds. However, when Iphigenia was about to be sacrificed, Artemis sent a doe to have her sacrificed instead, and made her a priestess in the temple of Artemis. So Artemis released the winds. After the victory in the Trojan war, Agamemnon took the beautiful Kassandra with him and returned home. Unable to digest Agamemnon's attempt to kill their daughter Iphigenia and his return with Kassandra, Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra, along with her lover Aigisthos, killed Agamemnon. In Homer's Odyssey, the main character, Odysseus, the king of Ithaca, speaks with the spirit of Agamemnon in the land of the dead, Agamemnon mentions his death as follows:
'Very cunning Odysseus, godlike son of Laertes,
Poseidon has not defeated me in my ships
let the raging breath of the sinister winds come upon me,
Neither did the enemy men destroy me on land,
It is Aigisthos who prepared me his death and his appointed time,
he killed me with the help of my treacherous wife,
He had invited me to his house and seated me at his table,
killed a cattle in a corral like gorges while eating.
That's how I died a heartbreaking death."
His son Orestes later avenged his father and killed his mother and lover.
According to another rumor, he was killed by drowning in the pool like Tantalos.
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