![]() Aegisthus and Clytemnestra now become king and queen of Mycene.Įight years later, Agamemnon's son Orestes, now come of age, returns to Mycene, and avenges his father's death by killing both Aegisthus and Clytemnestra. At the feast itself, Aegisthus and his men ambush Agamemnon, and kill him amongst the food and drink. When Agamemnon returns home, according to Homer's version, Aegisthus invites the victorious king of kings and his men to a feast. Aegisthus has the urge to revenge Agamemnon because in a dispute over th kingship Agamemnon's father, Atreus, killed the children (except Aegisthus himself) of Aegisthus' father, Thyestes and then served these children as dinner to Thyestes. Meanwhile, back in Mycene, Aegisthus, Agamemnon's first cousin, has managed to seduce Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, and the two conspire to murder Agamemnon on his return home. The Greeks now sail for Troy, and after a ten-year siege they take Troy under Agamemnon's leadership. ![]() He sends for Iphigenia (duping his wife Clytemnestra by telling her that Iphigenia must come to marry Achilles), and sacrifices his daughter. Consulting the seer Calchas, Agamemnon learns that he must sacrifice his own daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the goddess. Artemis is angry at the Greeks and stills the wind, so that they cannot set sail. The Greeks gather at Aulis before setting sail for Troy. The relatives of the dead suitors attacked the heroes on the farm of Laertes, father of Od., and a battle began, but it was ended by Zeus and Athena, who patched up a hasty reconciliation. ![]() revealed himself to her after the fighting was over. contrived to catch them unarmed and with the help of two loyal serving men (and of course Athena) they slaughtered all 108 suitors. entered his own house unrecognized, mingled with the suitors and talked with Penelope. The voyage of T., the arrival of Od., and the recognition and reunion of father and son, were all supervised by Athena.įather and son plotted the destruction of the suitors. The suitors set an ambush, meaning to murder him, but he eluded them and reached Ithaca just after his father arrived. was alive but detained without means of return on the island of Calypso. Shortly before the return of Od., Telemachus visited the mainland in search of news about his father. The suitors made themselves at home as uninvited guests in the palace of Od. ![]() might come back, and held them off, without ever saying positively that she would never marry again. She was accomplished and clever, still beautiful, an heiress and presumably a widow but she clung to the hope that Od. A few years before his return, the young bachelors of Od's kingdom, Ithaca and surrounding islands, began paying court to Penelope. left behind his wife, Penelope, and his infant son, Telemachus. After ten years, or in the tenth year, he was set down in his own country, alone and secretly, though with a new set of possessions, by the Phaeacians of Scheria, who were the last peoples he visited on his wanderings. During this time, none of his family knew what had happened to him, and he lost all his ships, all his men, and the spoils from Troy. Odysseus spent 10 years fighting at Troy, and another 10 years getting home. This is to help you read the poem, not to read insted of the poem.
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