Agamemnon (Zeus)

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For other uses of this name, see Agamemnon (disambiguation).

Agamemnon or Zeus Agamemnon (Gr. Ἀγαμέμνων) was a cultic epithet[clarification needed] of the Greek god Zeus,[1] under which he was worshiped at Sparta.[2][3][4] Some writers, such as Eustathius, thought that the god derived this name from the resemblance between him and the Greek hero Agamemnon; others that Zeus Agamemnon was merely a synecdoche glorifying the hero, not the god.[5] Still others believed it to be a mere epithet signifying the eternal, from agan (ἀγὰν) and menon (μένων).

References

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  2. ↑ Stobaeus, Sermones 42
  3. ↑ Lycophron, 335, with the Scholiast
  4. ↑ Eustathius of Thessalonica, On the Iliad ii. 25
  5. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

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