Agamemnon
[,æɡə'memnən]
Definition
(noun.) (Greek mythology) the king who lead the Greeks against Troy in the Trojan War.
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Examples
- Agamemnon could not be got to show in his classical tunic, but stood in the background with Aegisthus and others of the performers of the little play. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Then Palamedes, whenever he appears in tragedy, proves Agamemnon ridiculously unfit to be a general. Plato. The Republic.
- Away with the lying dream of Agamemnon in Homer, and the accusation of Thetis against Apollo in Aeschylus. Plato. The Republic.
- We saw where Agamemnon's fleets rendezvoused, and away inland a mountain which the map said was Mount Ida. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- For if Agamemnon could not count his feet (and without number how could he? Plato. The Republic.
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