Agamemnon – king of Argos, son of Atreus, and brother of Menelaus.
Father of Orestes and Iphigenia,
husband to Clytemnestra.
He was commander in chief of the Greek army in the Trojan War, and in order to
gain favorable winds for his journey, he was told by Calchas
to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia
to appease Artemis. While in Troy he takes Cassandra
hostage, and upon his return to Argos he and Cassandra are killed by Clytemnestra
and her lover Aegisthus.