Agamemnon

How To Use Agamemnon In A Sentence

• Eager to attack Troy, Agamemnon kills her, and the Greeks are given favorable winds for their ships.
• The Chorus mentions that Agamemnon and his brother Menelaus are very similar to each other, ‘twin throned, twin sceptered, in twofold power.’
• The speech is aimed at the self-will and factiousness of Achilles and his disloyalty to Agamemnon. The Art of Letters
• Her mother, Clytemnestra, has been driven mad by dreams of her own death at the hands of her son, Orestes, who accomplishes that matricide as revenge for his mother's murder of his father, Agamemnon.
• He called upon the great ones of Old Earth, too, Agamemnon and Caesar and Genghis Khan, Napoleon and Gilgamesh. THE LONGEST WAY HOME
• Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
• Atreus – Atreus, king of Mycene, was the son of Pelops and the father of Agamemnon and Menelaus. more info N.Y. Times mines its data to identify words that readers find abstruse » Nieman Journalism Lab
• I'm taking Agamemnon back to block the way out of this system. THE MOAT AROUND MURCHESON'S EYE
• Athene intervenes to check his urge to kill Agamemnon on the spot, and he withdraws in a sulk from the fighting.
• Agamemnon maintains that his blindness was an act of the gods.