Agamemnon (Zeus)

For other uses of this name, see Agamemnon (disambiguation).

Agamemnon or Zeus Agamemnon (Gr. Ἀγαμέμνων) was a cultic epithet of the Greek god Zeus,[1] under which he was worshiped at Sparta.[2][3][4] Some writers, such as Eustathius, thought that the god derived this name from the resemblance between him and the Greek hero Agamemnon; others that Zeus Agamemnon was merely a synecdoche glorifying the hero, not the god.[5] Still others believed it to be a mere epithet signifying the eternal, from agan (ἀγὰν) and menon (μένων).

References

  1. ↑ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Agamemnon (2)". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 59.
  2. ↑ Stobaeus, Sermones 42
  3. ↑ Lycophron, 335, with the Scholiast
  4. ↑ Eustathius of Thessalonica, On the Iliad ii. 25
  5. ↑ Nilsson, Martin Persson (1932). The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology. Sather Classical Lectures. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-60506-393-5.

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