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Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ruled Argos while Agamemnon was at Troy, where the war went on for ten years. The Greeks captured and looted the city, divided the treasure and sailed for home. Agamemnon ...

Aeschylus would appreciate the irony. His ancient Greek tragedy “Agamemnon,” the story of a disastrous war in the Middle East, now plays at the Getty Villa, a palace of classical culture funded by an ...

The official trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odysseyhas arrived, offering a look at the star-studded cast and the legendary Homer characters they're portraying. Matt Damon's Odysseus naturally ...

Schliemann believed he had found the body of the mythical king Agamemnon, who led the Achaean (Greek) siege of Troy in Homer's "Iliad” (he is also mentioned in Homer's "Odyssey" and features in some ...