Agamemnon
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Agamemnon (Zeus)
For other uses of this name, see Agamemnon (disambiguation).
Agamemnon or Zeus Agamemnon (Gr. Ἀγαμέμνων) was a cultic epithet[clarification needed] 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
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Agamemnon (2)". In Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. pp. 59. http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0068.html
- ^ Stobaeus, Sermones 42
- ^ Lycophron, 335, with the Scholiast
- ^ Eustathius of Thessalonica, On the Iliad ii. 25
- ^ Nilsson, Martin Persson (1932). The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology. Sather Classical Lectures. pp. 27. ISBN 978-1-60506-393-5. http://books.google.com/?id=C7KP9MVhWNgC.
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