This photo shows Clytemnestra and Aegisthus, her lover, plotting to murder her husband, Agamemnon, seen lying in bed in the background.
Agamemnon, King of Mycenae in the legend of the Greeks, married Clytemnestra and was the brother of Menelaus, who married Helen, his wife's half sister (Agamemnon). When Paris, a prince who was loved by the gods, abducted Helen, Agamemnon constructed a Greek army with himself as commander at the request of his brother (Agamemnon). In order to please the goddess Artemis, Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia, but it was a wise military decision because the Greeks were victors in the Trojan War (Agamemnon).
Upon victory, Agamemnon decided to take Chryseis, a girl of Troy, as his war prize (Homer). However, this does not work out too well for him because in response to his daughter being taken, Chryses, Chryseis' father, prayed to Apollo to have him impose a plague on the Greeks until his daughter was released (Homer). In trying to find a replacement, Agamemenon sets his eyes on Achilles' prize, Briseis (Homer). This leads two a heated fight between the two which results in Achilles' decision of withdrawal from the war (Homer). Agamemnon did not only take Briseis as a war prize, but he also brought with him Cassandra, a Trojan prophet, as booty (Cassandra). When Agamemnon returns home from the war with Cassandra, he finds that during his absence, Clytemnestra had found a new lover, Aegisthus (Agamemnon). Not long after the arrival of Agamemnon and Cassandra, they were murdered by Clytemnestra (McCaffrey).
Upon victory, Agamemnon decided to take Chryseis, a girl of Troy, as his war prize (Homer). However, this does not work out too well for him because in response to his daughter being taken, Chryses, Chryseis' father, prayed to Apollo to have him impose a plague on the Greeks until his daughter was released (Homer). In trying to find a replacement, Agamemenon sets his eyes on Achilles' prize, Briseis (Homer). This leads two a heated fight between the two which results in Achilles' decision of withdrawal from the war (Homer). Agamemnon did not only take Briseis as a war prize, but he also brought with him Cassandra, a Trojan prophet, as booty (Cassandra). When Agamemnon returns home from the war with Cassandra, he finds that during his absence, Clytemnestra had found a new lover, Aegisthus (Agamemnon). Not long after the arrival of Agamemnon and Cassandra, they were murdered by Clytemnestra (McCaffrey).
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