Agamemnon (Zeus)

For other uses, see Agamemnon (disambiguation).

Agamemnon or Zeus Agamemnon (Gr. Ἀγαμέμνων) was a cultic epithet of the Greek god Zeus,[1] under which he was worshiped at Sparta.[2][3][4][5] 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.[6] Still others believed it to be a mere epithet signifying the eternal, from agan (ἀγὰν) and menon (μένων).

References

  1. ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867). "Agamemnon (2)". In Smith, William (ed.). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Vol. 1. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. p. 59. Archived from the original on 2010-06-16. Retrieved 2008-05-22.
  2. ^ Stobaeus, Sermones 42
  3. ^ Lycophron, 335, with the Scholiast
  4. ^ Eustathius of Thessalonica, On the Iliad ii. 25
  5. ^ Athenagoras of Athens (c. 177 AD), Embassy to the Christians §1
  6. ^ Nilsson, Martin Persson (1932). The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology. Sather Classical Lectures. p. 27. ISBN 978-1-60506-393-5.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1870). "Agamemnon (2)". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.

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