著者

松田 治

出版者

つくば国際大学

雑誌

研究紀要 (ISSN:13412078)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.2, pp.73-84, 1996-03-25

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Agamemnon was one of the greatest heroes of the Trojan War. The war was fought, on the side of the Greeks, for the purpose of recapturing Helen, seduced and taken away to Troy by Paris, one of the Trojan princes. Agamemnon was the brother of Menelas, whose wife was Helen, and he was the number one general of Greek army. At the last moment of his life, after he had returned home from Troy, he was assassinated by his own wife, Clytemnestra. Why was he killed by his wife? Generally the reason of this treacherous murder is said to have come from the fact that Agamemnon sacrificed Iphigeneia, one of their daughters, to the goddess Artemis. This roused her rage, and led her to kill him, they say. But we think it was not the foremost reason of her sanguinary act. The object of this paper is to find out the first cause of the murder of the hero Agamemnon in the marriage with Clytemnestra.