Odysseus arrives in Ithaca not in glory, like Agamemnon, swiftly murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, but as a beggar.

She later kills Agamemnon (Brian Cox) during the Sack of Troy; in classical mythology Agamemnon is killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus.

His wife Clytemnestra never forgave him, and when he returned from the war ten years later, she and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon.

The king had been killed by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus.

While he was fighting the Trojans, his wife Clytemnestra, infuriated by the murder of her daughter, began an affair with Aegisthus.

Not just in Mycenae, where Agamemnon first returned-not just his wife Clytemnestra and his son Orestes and all the rest of that cast, but everyone's missing.

His wife Clytemnestra (Helen's sister) was having an affair with Aegisthus, son of Thyestes, Agamemnon's cousin who had conquered Argos before Agamemnon himself retook it.

But Pylades tells her that Agamemnon has been murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, in revenge for Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter.

Agamemnon arrives home and is there murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Agamemnon's cousin Aegisthus.

Cassandra's narration, which is presented as an internal monologue in stream-of-consciousness style, begins in Mycenae, where-as Cassandra knows-she will soon be murdered by Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra.