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Brief introduction of Agamemnon Agamemnon , whose name means firm and steadfast. He was the king of Mycenae, king of kings of the whole Greece. He was the son of king?Atreus（阿特柔斯）?of?Mycenae, the brother of Menelaus（墨涅拉俄斯）, the husband of?Clytemnestra （克吕泰涅斯特拉）?and the father of Iphigenia,?Electra?or Laodike ,?Orestes?andChrysothemis. When?Helen, the wife of Menelaus, ran off with?Paris（帕里斯） of?Troy, Agamemnon commanded the united Greek armed forces in the ensuing?（接下来的）Trojan War. Actually, the aim that he declare the war on troy is to Dominate the?Aegean Sea. Helen is just a blasting fuse. During the war,?he became?the?joint expeditionary?commander. Upon Agamemnons return from Troy, he was murdered by Aegisthus（埃奎斯托斯）, the lover of his wife, Clytemnestra. In Homeric epic’sOdyssey,?Odysseus in the witch Circes（喀耳刻） help?to consult weal or woe, had met??the?soul of?Agamemnon.?At that time,?he said?: i would rather live in the?earth?as a slave than in?the underworld?as a king?.(宁在凡间为奴，不在冥界为王) The?Mask of Agamemnon In another version, when Clytemnestra knew Agamemnon was arriving at the coast of Macenae, she sent Aeschylus to welcome him and Aeschylus invited Agamemnon to his house holding the feast. Agamemnon hadnt thought that there were twenty brawnies next door and during the feast , with Aeschyluss order, they rushed in, killed all the guests, incliding Agasmemnon who was killed like a ox eating in the manger. START By：陈扬扬 苟超平 胡雨奇 张雯静 It was discovered at Mycenae in 1876 by Heinrich Schliemann.The artifact is a funeral mask crafted in gold, and was found over the face of a body located in a burial shaft(竖井). Schliemann believed that he had discovered the body of the legendary Greek leaderAgamemnon, but modern archaeological research suggests that the mask is from 1550–1500 BC, earlier than the life of Agamemnon, as traditio