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Agamemnon, "Agamemnon is a prominent figure in Greek heroic legend, though the details of his story differ. He ruled at Mycenę and exercised lordship over much of the Peloponnesus. Therefore, when Paris carried off Helen, the wife of Menelaus, Agamemnon was the natural leader of the expedition made against Troy to recover her. His quarrel with Achilles is the starting-point of the Iliad." (The New International Encyclopędia, Vol. I (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1920) 224.)
J. N. Larned, Larned's History of the World, Vol. I (New York: Merrill & Baker, 1897) 510. (Heroes of the Trojan War. [Menelaüs, Paris, Diomedes, Odisseus, Nestor, Achilles, Agamemnon.])
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