Agamemnon was the leader of the Greek forces at Troy. According to Homer he was the king of Mycenae but other sources say that he was the king of Argos. What's most fascinating about him isn’t quite so much the warrior himself but the stories of the women who played a part in his life: in particular, his first wife, Clytemnestra, whose name means ‘praiseworthy wooing’, two of his daughters: Electra and Iphigenia, and his war prize, the doomed prophetess Cassandra whose name means ’she who entangles men’. While sailing for Troy, the Greeks somehow managed to offend the Goddess of the Hunt: Artemis (or Diana as she is also known). In her anger, Artemis kept the Greek fleet in the bay of Aulis and prevented it from sailing to Troy, and so, in order to appease her, the prophet Calchas advised Agamemnon to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia to the Goddess. Agamemnon followed the advice but he was not honest about his intention to sacrifice Iphigenia: he told both his daughter and...
Fate always has a dagger in her sleeve...