He was eventually caught and then banished to the Underworld, where he was severely punished. He used his favor with Zeus to test the gods’ omniscience by trying to feed them his son, Pelops while attempting to steal ambrosia and nectar. This so-called curse began with Tantalus, Agamemnon’s great-grandfather. The family origins of the house of Atreus were riddled with strife and misfortune, coupled with curses from several individuals throughout many generations in the family. This twist served as the climax of both of these men’s and their sons’ tales. They were not aware of Orestes’s fate, although it was mentioned at the beginning of the Odyssey of his destiny. Still, it is also here where he encouraged Odysseus to return to his wife Penelope and ask for the whereabouts of Orestes, the son of Agamemnon.
It was through this tale that Agamemnon took this chance to warn Odysseus when trusting women. Still, it was also jealousy for priestess Cassandra and that Agamemnon had to go to war over his brother’s wife. His men were also slaughtered, while his wife, Clytemnestra, murdered Cassandra over his dying body.Ĭlytemnestra’s motive for this betrayal stemmed from Agamemnon sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia. During the banquet, however, Agamemnon was ambushed and killed by Aegisthus. Agamemnon then explained the macabre turn of events after the fall of Troy.Īlongside the priestess Cassandra, he sailed back to the kingdom where Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, invited him to his palace for a feast, honoring his accomplishments in Troy.
Odysseus inquired whether it was at sea or at land that the former King of Mycenae died. No sooner in the land of Hades did Odysseus encountered Agamemnon, surrounded by his allies who perished alongside him, and greeted each other like old friends. Let us also explore the abnormal circumstances of the Atreus bloodline, also known as the curse of the House of Atreus. To expound further into this connection, we must first be briefed on the unfortunate death of Agamemnon. The tale of the death of Agamemnon was constantly repeated in the Homeric Classic as a parallel to the similar narrative of Odysseus and Telemachus, Odysseus’ son. In the Odyssey, the ghostly spirit of Agamemnon appears before Odysseus in the Kingdom of Hades, who tells the tale of his murder, and warns him of the dangers of trusting women. The two sailed back to the kingdom, where they both met their demise by Agamemnon’s wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover Aegisthus, the son of Thyestes. Who Is Agamemnon in The Odyssey?Īfter the fall of Troy, King Agamemnon took Cassandra, Priam’s daughter and priestess of Troy, as part of the spoils of war. In its precursor, the Iliad, Agamemnon was known as the King of Mycenae, who waged war on Troy to take his brother Menelaus’s wife, Helen. Miser Catulle, desinas ineptire (Catullus 8)Īgamemnon in The Odyssey is a recurring character in the form of several cameos across Homer’s Classic.Vivamus, mea Lesbia, atque amemus (Catullus 5).Passer, deliciae meae puellae (Catullus 2).
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