Agamemnon or Zeus Agamemnon (Gr. Ἀγαμέμνων) was a cultic epithet of the Greek god Zeus, under which he was worshiped at Sparta. 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. 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 (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.
- Stobaeus, Sermones 42
- Lycophron, 335, with the Scholiast
- Eustathius of Thessalonica, On the Iliad ii. 25
- Athenagoras of Athens (c. 177 AD), Embassy to the Christians §1
- 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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