Agamemnon Collection

Medea and Jason stealing the Golden Fleece
Depiction of Medea and Jason from Greek mythology. Medea drugs a serpent while Jason prepares to kill it and steal the Golden Fleece. Venus and a winged youth stand at their side

TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista (1696-1770). Eurybates and Talthybius Leading Briseis to Agamemnon. 1757. ITALY. Vicenza. Villa Valmarana. Baroque art. Fresco

The Transport Fleet embarking the Troops, at Varna (engraving)
1607773 The Transport Fleet embarking the Troops, at Varna (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Transport Fleet embarking the Troops, at Varna)

Iphigenia Not Sacrificed
Agamemnon is about to sacrifice his daughter so the Greek fleet can get under way to Troy, but Diana substitutes a deer at the last minute, and spirits her off to Tauris

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896049 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); 482x942 cm; (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Left scene)

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896215 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); 482x942 cm; (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Right scene. Ajax kills Paris)

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896122 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); 482x942 cm; (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Center Scene)

Sacrifice of Iphigenia, Iphigenia, also Iphigeneia, Iphigenia, in Greek mythology the eldest daughter of Agamemnon, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the past

Kymon and Iphigenia, also Iphigeneia, Iphigenia or Iphianassa, in Greek mythology the eldest daughter of Agamemnon, painting by Frederic Leighton, Historical

Kymon and Iphigenia, in Greek mythology the eldest daughter of Agamemnon, after a painting by Banjamin West, c. 1800, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Iphigenia in Tauris, Greek mythology

The heroes of the Trojan War: Menelaos, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles, Agamemnon

The heroes of the Trojan War: Menelaos, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles, Agamemnon

Heros of the Trojan War: Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles, Agamemnon, woodcut from 1880

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896383 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); 482x942 cm; (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Right scene)

Antique vase depicting the sacrifice of Iphigenia
Antique vase depicting the human sacrifice of Iphigenia by Agamemnon at Aulis from the Palazzo Medici. With another vase with lid, figure or a woman and dolphin intertwined

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896200 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Detail of Left scene)

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896156 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Center Scene)

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896436 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Center Scene)

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896428 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); 482x942 cm; (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Right scene)

Agamemnon preparing to leave for Trya
DGA537776 Agamemnon preparing to leave for Trya, by Benedict Piringer (1780-1826), engraving from Greek original, from Collection de Vases Grecs de Ms le Comte de Lamberg, by Alexandre de Laborde

Heroes of Trojan War, from left: Agamemnon
DGA555521 Heroes of Trojan War, from left: Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Diomedes, Pericles, Menelaus, from Giulio Ferrario, Ancient and Modern Custom of all Peoples

Dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon
DGA764699 Dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon, fulcrum of cycle with Stories of Iliad, by Felice Giani (1758-1823), fresco, vault of Feast Hall or Achilles Gallery, main floor, Palazzo Milzetti

Minerva restraining Achilles from killing Agamemnon
DGA503257 Minerva restraining Achilles from killing Agamemnon, by Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), fresco, The Iliad Room, Villa Valmarana Ai Nani, Vicenza, Italy by Tiepolo

The SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, c1910. Creator: Unknown
The SS Kaiser Wilhelm II, c1910. Passenger ship named after the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II, launched in 1902 and operated by the North German Lloyd (Norddeutscher Lloyd) shipping line

Clytemnestra
According to Greek mythology, Clytemnestra was the half-sister of the legendary Helen of Troy, who had been married to Menelaus, king of Sparta, and was taken to Troy by Paris

Breaking up of the Agamemnon, 1870. Creator: Francis Seymour Haden
Breaking up of the Agamemnon, 1870. The Agamemnon, the last surviving wooden-hulled battle ship in the British navy

John Adams, alias John Wilkinson
7341828 John Adams, alias John Wilkinson, Greenwich Pensioner boatswain's mate of the Agamemnon (watercolour) by Cruikshank, Frederic (1800-68); 23.9x18.6 cm; National Maritime Museum, London

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896566 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); 482x942 cm; (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Center Scene)

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4895992 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Left scene)

Scene from Aeschylus Agamemnon (engraving)
8635069 Scene from Aeschylus Agamemnon (engraving) by Leutemann, Heinrich (1824-1905); Private Collection; (add.info.: Scene from Agamemnon)

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4896336 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae. Left scene. The Trojans charging against the besiegers)

Heroes of the Trojan War (engraving)
8634986 Heroes of the Trojan War (engraving) by German School, (19th century) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Heroes of the Trojan War. Illustration from Hellas)

Heroes of Trojan War: Agamemnon
FGL5461371 Heroes of Trojan War: Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Diomedes, Pericles, Menelaus, 1827 (engraving); (add.info.: Heroes of Trojan War, from left: Agamemnon, Nestor, Ulysses, Diomedes)

Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry)
CUL4895965 Tapestry illustrating The Trojan War: Achilles Death, c.1470 (tapestry); 482x942 cm; (add.info.: AGAMEMNON. Legendary king of Argos and Mycenae)

Agamemnon se faisant couronner à huis-clos, 1856. Creator: Honore Daumier
Agamemnon se faisant couronner a huis-clos, 1856. - Ceremonie dont la simplicite n'exclut point une certaine majeste, Agamemnon being crowned behind closed doors

Achilles Receiving in his Tent the Envoys of Agamemnon, 1801

Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1690-1700. Creator: Arnold Houbraken
Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1690-1700. On his way to the Trojan War, the Greek king Agamemnon offended the goddess Artemis by hunting and killing one of her sacred stags

Je viens prévenir le roi Agamemnon... 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Je viens prevenir le roi Agamemnon... 19th century. Dramatic sketches - I come to warn King Agamemnon

La colére d'Agamemnon, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
La colere d'Agamemnon, 19th century. Ancient history - The anger of Agamemnon

Agamennone et Menelao argn condoti da Vulcano. Creator: Balthasar Moncornet
Agamennone et Menelao argn condoti da Vulcano

The sacrifice of Iphigenia. Main motif of the fireplace from a hotel in rue des Bernardins, 5th arrondissement, between 1626 and 1650

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1650-1660. Creator: Tassel, Jean (1608-1667)
The Sacrifice of Iphigenia, 1650-1660. Found in the Collection of the State Museum Arkhangelskoye Estate, Moscow

View of the rim and base of the Cup of Agamemnon and Briseis and the Racing Cup, Etruscan Museum, Tarquinia

Coiling of the Atlantic cable on board H.M.S Agamemnon prior to the 1858 expedition to lay cable from Britain to North America

Mycenaean art. Greece. Funerary Mask of Agamemnon in gold foil embossing. Discovered by Heinrich Schliemann in 1876 in Tomb V, Circle A at Mycenae. Dated in 1550 BCE. National Archaeological Museum

Cover of Mycenes by Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) published in Paris, 1879 (leather)
CHT221517 Cover of Mycenes by Heinrich Schliemann (1822-90) published in Paris, 1879 (leather) by French School, (19th century); Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris

Achilles Restrained by Athena in Agamemnons Tent, from Iliad, Book I, 1765/66

Statue of Orestes, naked, son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology
5323801 Statue of Orestes, naked, son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology by David, Francois-Anne (1741-1824); (add.info.: Statue of Orestes, naked, son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology)

Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad
5962667 Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad: "Athena prevents Achilles from drawing his sword against Agamemnon"

Achilles delivers Briseis to Agamemnons Heralds, 1787-90 (plaster)
6343150 Achilles delivers Briseis to Agamemnons Heralds, 1787-90 (plaster) by Canova, Antonio (1757-1822); Fondazione Cariplo, Milan, Lombardy

Figures of ancient Greek kings
6340104 Figures of ancient Greek kings by Corsi (19th century); (add.info.: Figures of ancient Greek kings. King dressed like Amamemnon of Homer 1)

Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad
5962668 Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad: "Athena prevents Achilles from drawing his sword against Agamemnon"

Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad
5962666 Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad: "Athena prevents Achilles from drawing his sword against Agamemnon"

Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad
5962662 Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad: "Briseis is lead to the presence of King Agamemnon"

Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad
5962669 Palazzina (Small Building): view of the first room and its frescoes representing episodes from the Iliad: "Athena prevents Achilles from drawing his sword against Agamemnon"

Statue of Orestes, naked, son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology
5323802 Statue of Orestes, naked, son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology by David, Francois-Anne (1741-1824); (add.info.: Statue of Orestes, naked, son of Agamemnon in Greek mythology)

Iphigenia (oil painting)
7172248 Iphigenia (oil painting) by Feuerbach, Anselm (1829-80); Private Collection; (add.info.: Iphigenia)

Dr Schliemanns Discoveries at Mycenae (engraving)
1059707 Dr Schliemanns Discoveries at Mycenae (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Dr Schliemanns Discoveries at Mycenae)

Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable (engraving)
1619216 Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Laying the Atlantic Telegraph Cable)

The Heroes of the Trojan War (engraving)
655560 The Heroes of the Trojan War (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Heroes of the Trojan War. Paris. Diomedes. Odysseus. Nestor. Achilles)

Agamemnon (engraving)
973748 Agamemnon (engraving) by Flaxman, John (1755-1826) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Agamemnon)

The Heroes of the Trojan War
LLM459207 The Heroes of the Trojan War by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Heroes of the Trojan War. Paris. Diomedes. Odysseus. Nestor. Achilles)

The Sacrifice of Iphigenia or Ifigenia Sacrificata, Book XII
STC415876 The Sacrifice of Iphigenia or Ifigenia Sacrificata, Book XII, illustration from Ovids Metamorphoses, Florence, 1832 (hand-coloured engraving) by Ademollo

The Atlantic Cable (engraving)
2785728 The Atlantic Cable (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Atlantic Cable)

Entrance to the Temple of Agamemnon, Mycenae, Greece Date: 1901

Iphigenia Pleading with Agamemnon (engraving)
3092550 Iphigenia Pleading with Agamemnon (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Iphigenia Pleading with Agamemnon)

Bombardment of Sebastopol (engraving)
1607862 Bombardment of Sebastopol (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Bombardment of Sebastopol)

Penelope and her attendants spinning thread
A depiction of Penelope, wife of Odysseus, with her attendants. Penelope sits on a chair at work on a thread. A servant takes away a mirror, and another brings todays cloth

Plaque depicting the sacrifice of Iphigenia, daughter of King Agamemnon. Chromolithograph by W

Agamemnon heard the sound of pipe and flute and laughter of men as the Trojans feasted and made merry (colour litho)
3652495 Agamemnon heard the sound of pipe and flute and laughter of men as the Trojans feasted and made merry (colour litho) by Robinson

Sailing Match with British Ships of War in the Sea of Marmora (engraving)
2772269 Sailing Match with British Ships of War in the Sea of Marmora (engraving) by English School

An audience in Athens during the Representation of Agamemnon
2638176 An audience in Athens during the Representation of Agamemnon, from The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, 1920 (colour litho) by Richmond

View from Spanish Point, Bermuda
1620280 View from Spanish Point, Bermuda, showing the Dockyard, and the Fleet at Anchor in Grassy Bay (engraving) by Weedon, Edwin (1819-79); Private Collection; (add.info.: View from Spanish Point)

Performance of the "Agamemnon"at Balliol College
1045477 Performance of the " Agamemnon" at Balliol College, Oxford, the Last Scene (engraving) by Johnston

Reshipment of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on Board the "Agamemnon
1609572 Reshipment of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable on Board the " Agamemnon, " and " Niagara" in Keyham Basin (engraving) by Weedon

Ancient Greece (coloured engraving)
3630045 Ancient Greece (coloured engraving) by German School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Ancient Greece)

Captain Nelson in the Agamemnon engaging the Ca Ira (colour litho)
2796967 Captain Nelson in the Agamemnon engaging the Ca Ira (colour litho) by McCormick, Arthur David (1860-1943); Private Collection; (add.info.: Captain Nelson in the Agamemnon engaging the Ca Ira)

The Black Sea Fleet Operations (engraving)
1619089 The Black Sea Fleet Operations (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Black Sea Fleet Operations)

How King Agamemnon came home
1192669 How King Agamemnon came home by Cole, Herbert (1867-1930); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Sunset of Heroes published by J M Dent & Son Ltd 1932); English, out of copyright

The Bombardment of Odessa (engraving)
1619012 The Bombardment of Odessa (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: The Bombardment of Odessa. Illustration for The Illustrated London News, 20 May 1854)

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Agamemnon: A Legendary Figure in Mythology, Art, and History" Agamemnon, a name that echoes through the annals of time. From the epic tales of Medea and Jason's daring theft of the Golden Fleece to the intricate engravings by Tiepolo depicting Eurybates' presence, it has left an indelible mark on our collective consciousness. In Greek mythology, Agamemnon was known as a powerful king and leader during the Trojan War. His role in orchestrating the Transport Fleet's embarkation of troops at Varna showcases his strategic prowess and determination to bring victory to Greece. Yet it is perhaps his infamous decision regarding Iphigenia that haunts us still. The relief we feel when learning she was not sacrificed speaks volumes about Agamemnon's complex character - torn between duty and morality. Beyond mythological accounts, it also finds himself entwined with historical events. The coiling of the Atlantic cable aboard HMS Agamemnon before its 1858 expedition symbolizes humanity's relentless pursuit of connection across vast distances. Mycenaean art immortalizes him too; a golden funerary mask bearing his likeness stands as a testament to his status as both hero and ruler. This mask serves as a reminder that even in death, Agamemnon continues to captivate our imagination. His legacy extends beyond ancient times; published works from 1880 recounting heroes from the Trojan War ensure that his story lives on for generations to come. Even photographs like those featuring SS Kaiser Wilhelm II or Allied warships at Dardanelles during WW1 evoke thoughts of this legendary figure. And let us not forget how artists have depicted pivotal moments involving Agamemnon throughout history - frescoes showcasing Eurybates leading Briseis towards him demonstrate their roles within an ever-unfolding narrative.