It was Agamemnon who finally decided to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. He did not need to be informed.
Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, killed him in revenge for sacrificing their daughter, Iphigenia, and for his betrayal and infidelity.
Agamemnon was betrayed by his wife, Clytemnestra. After he sacrificed their daughter, Iphigenia, to appease the gods for favorable winds to sail to Troy, Clytemnestra harbored resentment and ultimately conspired with her lover, Aegisthus. Upon Agamemnon's return from the Trojan War, she killed him in revenge for his actions and her own feelings of betrayal.
Cassandra was a seer (whom no one ever believed) and the daughter of Priam, King of Troy. She was taken by Agamemnon, leader of the Greeks, to be his mistress, but she was anxious the whole journey because she foresaw her own death. When she and Agamemnon went into his home, his wife Clytemnestra killed Agamemnon with an axe and then killed Cassandra.
Clytemnestra kills Agamemnon in revenge for his sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia and his betrayal of their marriage by bringing back a concubine from the Trojan War.
Begs Agamemnon, and compares him self to Agamemnon's father.
Iphigenia was the daughter of either Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra or of Helen and Theseus. She had no children of her own.
Agamemnon had two daughter's, one of whom was named Electra. Iphigenia commonly regarded as Agamemnon's daughter was actually the daughter of Theseus and Helen.
In Greek mythology, Iphigenia was a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and thus a princess of Argos. Agamemnon offends the goddess Artemis by killing her deer. Artemis retaliates by interfering with the wind so that Agamemnon can't sail. A seer tells Agamemnon that he must sacrifice his daughter.
It was Agamemnon who finally decided to sacrifice his daughter, Iphigenia. He did not need to be informed.
He had to give him back his daughter.
ummm.... Agamemnon x
Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order for the Greeks to have a safe journey to Troy
Agamemnon had to sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia in order for the Greeks to have a safe journey to Troy
Agamemnon's wife, Clytemnestra, killed him in revenge for sacrificing their daughter, Iphigenia, and for his betrayal and infidelity.
Agamemnon's big problem is not with Athena. Agamemnon has blood-guilt on his hands because he sacrificed his own daughter Iphigenia at Aulis when the invasion fleet was becalmed there. Since Agamemnon has family blood on his hands revenge is waiting for him around every corner. The story is played out in all its horrors in Aeschylus' Agamemnon.
Iphegenia, the daughter of Agamemnon.