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Borrowed from Il. vii. 125 κε μέγ᾽ οἰμώξειε γέρων ἱππηλάτα Πηλεύς”. In Homer Agamemnon is of course king of Mycenae, though brother of Menelaus of Sparta. But just as Aeschylus transferred the scene of his play from destroyed Mycenae to Argos (Aesch. Ag. 24, 503, 810), while Euripides wavers between the two, Stesichorus and the Lyric poets, under Dorian influence, made Agamemnon live and die at Amyclae or Sparta (Schol. Eur. Orest. 46; Pind. Nem. viii. 13; Pyth. xi. 32). The grave of Agamemnon was shown at Amyclae (Paus. iii. 19. 6) as well as at Mycenae (Paus. ii. 16. 6); there were cults of Agamemnon in Laconia, especially of Zeus Agamemnon at Sparta. For the parallel transference of Orestes cf. i. 67 n. Sparta as head of ‘Pelops' isle’ naturally claimed the race of Pelops for her own.

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    • Euripides, Orestes, 46
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 2.16.6
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.19.6
    • Homer, Iliad, 7.125
    • Aeschylus, Agamemnon, 24
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