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Agamemnon followed his brother Menelaus after Menelaus' wife Helen was stolen by Paris, thus igniting the Trojan WarThe Trojan War was a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of Greece, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war figures centrally in Greek mythology and was narrated.

While Agamemnon was away, Clytemnestra weakened her resolve and began a torrid love affair with AegisthusIn Greek mythology, Aegisthus ("goat strength", also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigisthos was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus. The two battled bac, her husband's kinsman (daughter with Aegisthus: ErigoneIn Greek mythology, Erigone was the daughter of Icarius. Icarius was from Athens. He was cordial towards Dionysus, who gave his shepherds wine. They became intoxicated and killed Icarius, thinking he had poisoned them. His daughter, Erigone, and her dog,). She was bitter towards her absent husband for having sacrificed their daughter, Iphigeneia, to ArtemisThis article is about the Greek goddess. For other meanings of the term, see Artemis (disambiguation). Hellenistis marble sculpture (now at the Louvre Museum,seen here in a 19th century engraving In Greek mythology Artemis ("fashion") is the daughter of Z.

At the end of the war, Agamemnon returned to Mycenae where his kinsman, AegisthusIn Greek mythology, Aegisthus ("goat strength", also transliterated as Aegisthos or Aigisthos was the son of Thyestes and his daughter, Pelopia. Thyestes felt he had been deprived of the Mycenean throne unfairly by his brother, Atreus. The two battled bac, who in the interval had seduced his wife Clytemnestra, invited him to a banquet at which he was treacherously slain. Princess CassandraCassandra was a pseudonym of William Connor, long standing British journalist In Greek mythology, Cassandra ("she who entangles men") (also known as Alexandra was a daughter of King Priam of Troy and his queen Hecuba, who captured the eye of Apollo and so of Troy, who had been taken by Agamemnon as a war trophy, was also put to death by Clytemnestra. According to the account given by PindarPindar (or Pindarus ( 522 BC 443 BC), the greatest lyric poet of ancient Greece, was born at Cynoscephalae, a village in Thebes. He was the son of Daiphantus and Cleodice. The traditions of his family have left their impression on his poetry, and are not and the tragedians, Agamemnon was slain by his wife alone in a bath, a piece of cloth or a net having first been thrown over him to prevent resistance. According to Aeschylus, Clytemnestra placed a piece of purple cloth and asked the returning Agamemnon to step over it. He refused at first but then gave in, while Cassandra, who had been endowed with the gift of prophecy but with the curse of no one believing her, waited outside, knowing doom awaited. She stayed outside until she heard Agamemnon scream as he died, then ran inside and was killed by Clytemnestra. Clytemnestra's wrath at the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia, and her jealousy of Cassandra, are said to have been the motives of her crime. The murder of Agamemnon was avenged by his son Orestes.

The story of Orestes is told in Aeschylus's famous trilogy, the Oresteia, in Sophocles's play Electra, and in Euripides's play Electra.