Gr. Myth. king of Mycenae and commander in chief of the Greek army in the Trojan War, killed by his wife Clytemnestra
See Agamemnon in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(ăgˌə-mĕmˈnŏnˌ, -nən)
noun Greek Mythology
The king of Mycenae and leader of the Greeks in the Trojan War, who was the son of Atreus and the father of Orestes, Electra, and Iphigenia. He was killed by his wife Clytemnestra upon his return from Troy.