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 Translation for 'Agamemnon' from English to Czech
NOUN   Agamemnon | -
mytol.
Agamemnon {noun}
Agamemnón {m}
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Translation for 'Agamemnon' from English to Czech

Agamemnon {noun}
Agamemnón {m}mytol.
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  • Agamemnón {m} = Agamemnon
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Usage Examples English
  • Agamemnon and Meriones both stood for the javelin throw competition, but Achilles declared Agamemnon to be the greatest among javelin throwers.
  • "Graphium agamemnon" is common and not threatened.
  • Hecuba rages inconsolably against the brutality of such an action, and resolves to take revenge. Agamemnon enters, and Hecuba, tentatively at first and then boldly requests that Agamemnon help her avenge her son's murder.
  • Achilles was angry at Agamemnon, and seethed with rage in his tent that Agamemnon dared to insult him by stripping him of the prize that had been awarded to him.
  • In the "Iliad", he confronted Agamemnon over the body of his brother Iphidamas and wounded the opponent in the arm, but Agamemnon struck back and chopped Coön's head off.

  • "Annona muricata" is also the main host plant for tailed jay ("Graphium agamemnon") caterpillars. They eat the leaves voraciously and usually stick under the leaves to pupate.
  • While Agamemnon laid siege to Troy, his estranged queen Clytemnestra took Aegisthus as a lover.
  • One such account of this appears with Cassandra in Aeschylus' play, where she is brought to Agamemnon's palace as a mistress. She is later killed by Clytemnestra, alongside Agamemnon.
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