All 8 Uses of
Agamemnon
in
The Odyssey by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
- They discourse concerning the death of Agamemnon, the revenge of Orestes, and the injuries of the suitors.†
Book 3 *
- Those, whom the heir of great Apollo's art, Brave Philoctetes, taught to wing the dart; And those whom Idomen from Ilion's plain Had led, securely cross'd the dreadful main How Agamemnon touch'd his Argive coast, And how his life by fraud and force he lost, And how the murderer, paid his forfeit breath; What lands so distant from that scene of death But trembling heard the fame?†
Book 3
- awful Nestor, tell How he, the mighty Agamemnon, fell; By what strange fraud Aegysthus wrought, relate (By force he could not) such a hero's fate?†
Book 3
- Ranged on the banks, beneath our equal oars White curl the waves, and the vex'd ocean roars Then, steering backward from the Pharian isle, We gain the stream of Jove-descended Nile; There quit the ships, and on the destined shore With ritual hecatombs the gods adore; Their wrath atoned, to Agamemnon's name A cenotaph I raise of deathless fame.†
Book 4
- He sees the shades of the ancient heroines, afterwards of the heroes, and converses in particular with Agamemnon and Achilles.†
Book 11
- For whose cursed cause, in Agamemnon's name, He trod so fatally the paths of fame."†
Book 14
- (Thus Agamemnon's kingly shade rejoin'd) Thrice happy thou, to press the martial plain 'Midst heaps of heroes in thy quarrel slain: In clouds of smoke raised by the noble fray, Great and terrific e'en in death you lay, And deluges of blood flow'd round you every way.†
Book 24
- But Agamemnon, through the gloomy shade, His ancient host Amphimedon survey'd: "Son of Melanthius!†
Book 24
Definition:
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(Agamemnon) Greek mythology: the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War