Agamemnon

Aulis, known from the Trojan War and the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon, the leader of the Greeks, is located on the Boeotian coast, in the southern Evian Gulf, opposite the source of Arethusa.

A marble sarcophagus believed to date back to the second century Roman Empire era and unearthed in 2015 in an olive garden in the northwestern province of Bursa's İznik district has been determined to be telling the story of the Trojan War.

The Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany, is dedicating a major exhibition to the Bronze Age civilization of the Mycenaeans.

Titled "Mycenae - The Legendary World of Agamemnon," the exhibition runs to June next year and aims to provide comprehensive insights into the Mycenaean era, which stretched from 1600 to 1200 BC.

First presented in 408 BC, Euripides' "Orestes," which follows the events after Orestes has killed his mother, Clytemnestra, to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands, will be staged at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus on August 3 and 4, starting at 9 p.m.

Aeschylus' "Agamemnon" takes center stage next weekend at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus as part of the Athens and Epidaurus Festival. Plotting, unfortunate fates and morality loom large in the first play of the "Oresteia" trilogy, which focuses on the return of Agamemnon to his kingdom and family. The play will be in Greek with English surtitles. Both performances begin at 9 p.m.

A group of Syrian women are adapting the Euripides' tragedy "Iphigenia," using a a play set during an ancient war to bring Berlin audiences closer to the plight of women driven from their homeland by conflict.

A 1,800-year-old mosaic, which showed the sacrifice of Iphigenia, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra during the Trojan War in Greek mythology, was found at excavation works in the ancient city of Perge in Turkey's Mediterranean region.

There is a Chinese proverb that says a picture is worth a thousand words. But what if you come across a word that can’t be translated into other languages. The Greek word “Philotimo” has often been rendered as “Love of honour” in the English language, but this interpretation fails to encapsulate the true meaning of the world.

İzmir's therapeutic hot springs in the Balçova district, Agamemnon, named after the famous Trojan warrior and the King of Mycenae in Greek mythology, has been serving as a popular spot for visitors and patients since antiquity. 

Those Hollywood blockbusters, either set in ancient times in history or travel centuries into the the future are so realistic and life-like that viewers often wonder how do these studios pull off the visual magic on the sliver screen?