Pelops stands as the great ancestor of the royal house of Mycenae in Greek myth, the figure who gave the Peloponnese, the island of Pelops, its very name. A son of Tantalus, he won his bride Hippodamia by defeating her father Oinomaos in a deadly chariot race. That victory came through the treachery of the … Read more
Electra ranks among the most haunting figures in the legend of Mycenae, a princess trapped inside the crime that tore her royal family apart. Greek myth named her a daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, sister to Orestes and to the sacrificed Iphigenia. Her mother and her mother’s lover murdered the returning king, and … Read more
Aegisthus stands among the darkest figures in the legend of Mycenae, the usurper king whose crime and downfall belong to the bloodiest chapter of the royal saga. Greek tradition made him the son of Thyestes, born of the old feud between his father and Thyestes’ brother Atreus over the throne of the citadel. As King … Read more
Iphigenia stands among the most sorrowful figures of Greek myth, the princess of Mycenae whose fate opens a long chain of grief within the royal house. She is the daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, born into the ruling line of a citadel that commanded the Greek world of legend. Her story turns on … Read more
Orestes is the prince of Mycenae in Greek myth, son of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytemnestra, and the figure who closes the tragic cycle of the royal house. Sent away as a boy for safety, he grew up in exile while his mother and her lover Aegisthus held the throne of Mycenae. He returned as … Read more
Clytemnestra stands among the darkest and strongest figures of Greek myth, the queen of Mycenae and wife of King Agamemnon. Daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, sister of Helen of Troy, she ruled the great citadel while her husband led the Greeks across the sea to war. Legend hands her a fierce will and a long … Read more
Perseus stands at the very start of Mycenae’s legend as its mythical founder and first king. Greek tradition made him a son of Zeus and the mortal princess Danae, a hero who slew the Gorgon Medusa and rescued Andromeda from a sea monster. Ancient writers said that after these deeds he founded the city and … Read more
The Trojan War is the great legendary conflict of Greek myth, a ten-year siege of the city of Troy in Asia Minor by a coalition of Greek kingdoms. Homer’s epic poem the Iliad places Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, at the head of that Greek host, making his citadel the leading power of the heroic age. … Read more
The House of Atreus is the doomed royal dynasty of Mycenae in Greek myth, a family pursued across generations by a curse of murder and revenge. Its story descends from Pelops and Tantalus and runs through the brothers Atreus and Thyestes into the reign of Agamemnon, king of Mycenae. Bloodshed answers bloodshed here, and each … Read more
Agamemnon stands as the legendary king of Mycenae in Greek myth, the commander who led the Greek forces against Troy in the war told by Homer. He was the son of Atreus and the brother of Menelaus, born into a dynasty stained by murder and revenge across generations. Myth ties his name to the shaft … Read more