Agamemnon

Reading notes

• The Loves §1.9 Atreus' son

  Agamemnon, the Greek commander-in-chief, struck dumb by the captive Cassandra's beauty.

• The Loves §2.8 Mycenaean captain

  Agamemnon, who loved the captive priestess Cassandra; cited (with Achilles) to excuse a man's love for a slave.

• The Art of Love §1.10 the son of Atreus

  Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy, murdered on his return by his wife.

• The Art of Love §2.20 the son of Atreus

  Agamemnon, who took the captives Chryseis, Briseis, and Cassandra; his unfaithfulness drove Clytemnestra to revenge.

• The Heroides §3 the son of Atreus

  Agamemnon, commander-in-chief of the Greeks, who seized Briseis and now offers gifts to recover Achilles.

• The Heroides §3 the Mycenaean

  Agamemnon, king of Mycenae; Briseis swears she never shared his bed.

• The Heroides §8 the son of Tantalus

  Agamemnon, descendant of Tantalus, commander-in-chief at Troy and Orestes' father, who ruled even Achilles.

• The Heroides §8 your father

  Agamemnon, Orestes' father and Hermione's uncle, avenged by Orestes and resting beneath his mound.

• Letters from the Black Sea §4.8 you know Agamemnon

  Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy; cited as a hero whose memory survives only because poetry preserved it — Ovid's argument for verse's immortalizing power.

• The Festivals §4.proem son of Atreus

  Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks at Troy, whose fate scattered his men to Italy.

• Metamorphoses §12.383 the one greater in war and years

  Commander of the Greeks (son of Atreus, descendant of Tantalus), who refers the dispute over Achilles's arms to the assembly.

• Metamorphoses §13.393 Atrides

  Agamemnon, son of Atreus and commander of the Greek host.

• Metamorphoses §15.518 of Agamemnon

  The Greek high king, who outshone his father Atreus.

• The Cure for Love §14 the son of Atreus

  Agamemnon, leader of the Greek host at Troy, who loved his prize Chryseïs and then took Briseïs.

• The Cure for Love §24 the Plisthenian man

  Agamemnon, called Plisthenian after Plisthenes, reckoned his father in one genealogy.