Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and leader of the Greek army in the Trojan War
0Agamemnon was the king of Mycenae and the commander of the Greek army during Homer's Illiad's Trojan War. He is portrayed as a superb warrior but a self-centered tyrant who notoriously upset his indestructible champion Achilles, prolonging the conflict and suffering of his warriors. There are no historical records of a Mycenaean monarch with that name, although the city was affluent in the Bronze Age, and there may have been a true, though much shorter, Greek-led invasion on Troy. Both of these claims are backed up by archaeological data. Unfortunately, the renowned gold mask is known as the 'Mask of Agamemnon,' discovered in a shaft tomb at Mycenae and commonly regarded as the 'Mask of Agamemnon,' is dated up to 400 years before any plausible Agamemnon candidate who fits a Trojan War timeline.
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