Ag’amemnon. Agamem'non, son of king Atreus, and

Greek leader in the Trojan war, was the father of Iphigenia, Electra, and Orestes, whose tragic history was the favorite theme of Greek poets. After the fall of Troy he returned to Greece, to be murdered by Olytemnestra, his faithless wife.

31. — Oreste. Orestes (ô res' tes), son of Agamemnon, to avenge

his father, slew his mother, for which jnst, though imnatural act^ he was ceaselessly tormented by the Furies.

31. — La famille des Atrées. Atreus died at the hand of Ægisthus ; Agamemnon, his son, was murdered by his own wife, Olytemnestra ; Orestes, Electra, Iphigenia, children of Agamemnon, suffered great tribulations.