Greek mythology · king · command, hubris, homecoming to murder
High king of the Greek expedition, who sacrificed his own daughter Iphigenia for a sailing wind. He took Troy after ten years and came home to be murdered in his bath by his wife Clytemnestra, the curse of the house of Atreus closing over him.
A plague from Apollo forces Agamemnon to surrender his war-prize, so he seizes Achilles's instead. The greatest of the Greeks withdraws from battle in fury and prays for his own side to suffer; the Iliad is the story of what that anger costs.