Oh, you shouldn't assume that I'm familiar with the Iliad. I read the
Aeneid (Virgil's Latin rework of the Greek) but that was many years ago.
Agamemnon was the High King of the Greeks, and the story I was thinking
of when my cat (with his sister) turned up was that of Agamemnon and
Clytemnestra (his wife). It's one of the Greek plays by Aeschylus
(others use the same story) which deals with events at home while the
Trojan war is going on.
The Greek navy has a bit of trouble with the wind - it won't blow in the
right direction. So Agamemnon sacrifices his daughter Iphgenia (I
think) to please the gods and get them to change the winds.
Clytemnestra is not too chuffed, and vows to kill him. When Agamemnon
gets back from the war, she dashes his brains out. Their other two
children Orestes & Electra then get Clytemnestra in revenge.
Well you did ask.
Regards,
Laurence G. Tilley
http://www.lgtilley.freeserve.co.uk/
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In message <6DFDF79203BBD2118D010008C70DB198F5EF5A@express.nsk.com.au>, Michael Peters <MPeters@nskomatsu.com.au> writes
But I figured anyone who calls their cat by the general's name might
rememeber a little bit more of the book than I. FOI, my cat was called
'cat', and a middle earth friend's cat was called 'morgoth'