Agamemnon

A surname of Zeus, under which he was worshiped at Sparta.1 Eustathius2 thinks that the god derived this name from the resemblance between him and Agamemnon; while others believe that it is a mere epithet signifying the Eternal, from μένων (menōn).

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References

Notes

  1. Lycophron, 335, with the Scholist.
  2. Eustathius on Homer's Iliad ii, 25.

Source

  • Smith, William. (1870). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. London: Taylor, Walton, and Maberly.

This article incorporates text from Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology (1870) by William Smith, which is in the public domain.