A complete dictionary of the Greek and Roman antiquities explaining the obscure places in classic authors and ancient historians relating to the religion, mythology, history, geography and chronology of the ancient Greeks and Romans, their ... rites and customs, laws, polity, arts and engines of war : also an account of their navigations, arts and sciences and the inventors of them : with the lives and opinions of their philosophers / compiled originally in French ... by Monsieur Danet ; made English, with the addition of very useful mapps.

AGAMEMNON,

the Son of Atreus and Europa, and Brother of Menelaus, was King of Myeenae, one of the Kingdoms of Peloponnesus. Going to the Siege of Troy to revenge the Rape of his Sister-in-law Helena, he left with his Wife Clytemnestra, a musical Poet who was faithful to him, to divert her in his absence, and so hinder her from acting any thing contrary to the Fidelity she ow'd him. Aegistheus the Son of Thyestes, who endeavour'd to debauch her, seeing that this Poet broke all his Measures, and obstructed his Designs, carry'd him away into a desart Isle, and left him there to die of Hunger, and returning to Mycaenae, debauch'd Clytemnestra, and got possession of the King∣dom. Agamemneo, at his return from the Tre∣jan War, was slain by his own Wife at a Ban∣quet which she had prepared for him, having inclos'd him in a Garment without a Bosom when he came out of the Bath. Orestes re∣veng'd the Death of his Father upon his Mo∣ther, and Aegistheus, who debauch'd her, for he kill'd 'em both. Agamemnon was chang'd in∣to an Eagle after his Death.