Agamemnon (Zeus)

Agamemnon or Zeus Agamemnon (Gr. polytonic|Ἀγαμέμνων) was a cultic epithet of the Greek god Zeus,Citation | last = Schmitz | first = Leonhard | author-link = | contribution = Agamemnon (2) | editor-last = Smith | editor-first = William | title = Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology | volume = 1 | pages = 59 | publisher = Little, Brown and Company | place = Boston | year = 1867 | contribution-url = http://www.ancientlibrary.com/smith-bio/0068.html ] under which he was worshiped at Sparta. [Stobaeus, "Sermones" 42] [Lycophron, 335, with the Scholiast] [Eustathius of Thessalonica, "On the Iliad" ii. 25] Some writers, such as Eustathius, thought that the god derived this name from the resemblance between him and the Greek hero Agamemnon; others that "Zeus Agamemnon" was merely a synecdoche glorifying the hero, not the god. [cite book | last = Nilsson | first = Martin Persson | authorlink = Martin P. Nilsson | coauthors = | title = The Mycenaean Origin of Greek Mythology | publisher = Sather Classical Lectures | date = 1932 | location = | pages = 27 | url = http://books.google.com/books?id=C7KP9MVhWNgC | doi = | id = | isbn = ] Still others believed it to be a mere epithet signifying the eternal, from "agan" (polytonic|ἀγὰν) and "menon" (polytonic|μένων).

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