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Agamemnon

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Noun

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(Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War

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Agamemnon

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noun
Greek mythology
a king of Mycenae who led the Greeks at the siege of Troy. On his return home he was murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus
See also Menelaus

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Agamemnon

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noun
Greek Mythology
king of Mycenae and commander in chief of the Greek army in the Trojan War, killed by his wife Clytemnestra

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Agamemnon

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n.
Greek Mythology
The king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, who was the son of Atreus and the father of Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia. He was killed by his wife Clytemnestra upon his return from Troy.

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