How to Use Agamemnon in a Sentence

Agamemnon

noun

• Pathei mathos, which appears in Aeschylus’ play Agamemnon, is an aphorism about wisdom.
  — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 20 Aug. 2025
• The priest offers to ransom her with a priceless treasure, which Agamemnon spurns rudely, and Apollo punishes this sacrilege with a plague.
  — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 2023-09-11
• On his return home from the Trojan War, Agamemnon is ostentatiously welcomed by his queen, Clytemnestra.
  — Teju Cole, New York Times, 2023-09-12
• But in the myth, spelled out in Aeschylus’s Agamemnon, the oracle survived the sack of Troy and was later murdered by Clytemnestra, the avenging wife of the tragedy’s titular king.
  — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 2024-04-23
• In the interim, the amateur archaeologist turned his attention to another mythical ruler: Agamemnon, king of Mycenae and brother of Menelaus.
  — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 2022-05-17