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Agamemnon, usually referred to as King Agamemnon or General Agamemnon, was an ancient ancestor of House Atreides and the subject of Agamemnon, the Atreides House Play. He was a great military commander in one of human history's legendary wars, long before the creation of the thinking machines that had enslaved mankind.
Biography[]
Agamemnon the son of Atreus.[1] He was a General in the Trojan War[3] and one of the Generals who ultimately conquered Troy.[1] He had a son named Orestes.[2] Agamemnon and the story of the Trojan War were recorded in Homer's Iliad.[3]
According to the play Agamemnon, Agamemnon sacrificed his own daughter to guarantee favorable winds from the gods before sailing to Troy. His distraught wife, Clytemnestra, had spent the ten years of her husband's absence plotting revenge. After the end of the Trojan War, Agamemnon arrived in a chariot, accompanied by his spoils-of-war mistress, the half-insane prophetess Cassandra. Meanwhile, Clytemnestra made preparations for her hated husband's appearance, feigning devotion and love. Amidst great pomp and fanfare, Agamemnon marched into his palace, while the oracle Cassandra, speechless in terror, refused to enter. She foretold her own death and the murder of the general; of course, no one listened to her. When the returning general went to his bath, his treacherous wife tangled him in purple robes and stabbed both him and his oracular mistress to death.[4]
Andrew Skouros later adopted the name Agamemnon after him before the Time of Titans. Agamemnon Canyon on the House Atreides homeplanet Caladan was named in honor of their ancestor.
Alia Atreides heard her descendant Agamemnon, speak to her through her Other Memory.[5]
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Behind the scenes[]
- The real Agamemnon was the legendary son of Atreus and the commander of the Achaeans during the Trojan war.
Appearances[]
- Dune: The Butlerian Jihad (mentioned only)
- Dune: The Machine Crusade (mentioned only)
- Dune: House Atreides (mentioned only)
- Children of Dune (other memory)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Dune: House Atreides - Chapter 3: House Atreides claimed to trace its roots more than twelve thousand years, back to the ancient sons of Atreus on Old Terra. Now the family embraced its long history, despite the numerous tragic and dishonorable incidents it contained. The Dukes had made an annual tradition of performing the classic tragedy of Agamemnon, the most famous son of Atreus and one of the generals who had conquered Troy.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Dune: House Corrino - Chapter 121: The name had been chosen to honor Leto’s father Paulus, while the middle name, Orestes, commemorated the son of Agamemnon in the House of Atreus, thought to be the forerunner of House Atreides.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Dune: The Machine Crusade - 175 B.G. - Jihad Year 27: He read the records of ancient humanity and memorized details of the original Agamemnon, the ancient general who had fought in the Trojan War, as recorded in Homer’s Iliad.
- ↑ Dune: House Atreides - Chapter 3
- ↑ Children of Dune - Chapter 11: Other voices wove around her mind: "I, Agamemnon, your ancestor, demand audience!"