Editing Agamemnon (section)

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[[Athenaeus]] tells a tale of how Agamemnon mourns the loss of his friend or lover [[Argynnus]], when he drowns in the [[Cephissus (Boeotia)|Cephisus]] river.<ref name="ArgynnusLD">{{cite web |last=Lewis |first=Charlton T. |author2=Short, Charles |title=Argynnus |work=[[A Latin Dictionary]] |publisher=[[Perseus Project]] |url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3DArgynnus |access-date=16 September 2011 |archive-date=16 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016171706/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0059:entry=Argynnus |url-status=live}}</ref> He buries him, honored with a tomb and a shrine to [[Aphrodite]] Argynnis.<ref>[[Athenaeus]], ''[[Deipnosophistae]]'' ("The Learned Banqueters") [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/atheneus_grammarian-learned_banqueters/2007/pb_LCL345.51.xml 13.603d-e].</ref> This episode is also found in [[Clement of Alexandria]],<ref>Clement of Alexandria, ''[[Protrepticus (Clement)|Protrepticus]]'' II.38.2</ref> in [[Stephen of Byzantium]] ''(Kopai'' and ''Argunnos)'', and in [[Propertius]], III with minor variations.<ref>Butler, Harold; Edgeworth & Barber, Eric Arthur, eds. (1933), ''The Elegies of Propertius'', Oxford, [[Oxford University Press|Clarendon Press]]; p. 277</ref>

The fortunes of Agamemnon have formed the subject of numerous [[tragedy|tragedies]], ancient and modern, the most famous being the ''[[Oresteia]]'' of Aeschylus. In the legends of the [[Peloponnesus]], Agamemnon was regarded as the highest type of a powerful monarch, and in [[Sparta]] he was worshipped under the title of ''[[Agamemnon (Zeus)|Zeus Agamemnon]]''. His tomb was pointed out among the ruins of Mycenae and at [[Amyclae]].

In works of art, there is considerable resemblance between the representations of [[Zeus]], king of the gods, and Agamemnon, king of men. He is generally depicted with a [[sceptre]] and [[diadem]], conventional attributes of kings.

Agamemnon's mare is named Aetha. She is also one of two horses driven by Menelaus at the funeral games of [[Patroclus]].<ref>[[pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.8.3 5.8.3] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319224213/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0525.tlg001.perseus-eng1:5.8.3 |date=19 March 2022}}; [[Plutarch]], ''Moralia - How the Young Man Should Study Poetry'', [https://www.loebclassics.com/view/plutarch-moralia_how_young_man_should_study_poetry/1927/pb_LCL197.171.xml 12]</ref>

In Homer's ''[[Odyssey]]'' Agamemnon makes an appearance in the kingdom of Hades after his death. There, the former king meets Odysseus and explains just how he was murdered before he offers Odysseus a warning about the dangers of trusting a woman.<ref>Homer, ''[[Odyssey]]'', [http://data.perseus.org/citations/urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:11.361-11.403 11.385–465] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319224259/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0012.tlg002.perseus-eng1:11.361-11.403 |date=19 March 2022}}.</ref>

Agamemnon is a character in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[Troilus and Cressida]]'', set during the Trojan War.

In [[Frank Herbert]]'s ''[[Dune (novel)|Dune]]'', the House of Atreides trace themselves back to the House of Atreus. At a key point in [[Children of Dune]], Alia Atreides, in a struggle with her ancestral memories, hears Agamemnon shouting "I, your ancestor Agamemnon, demand audience!"