NOTES TO THE AGAMEMNON
Gilbert Murray translation
The chief characters in the play belong to one family, as is shown by the two genealogies:—
I.
TANTALUS | Pelops | ——————————————————————————— | | Atreus Thyestes | | ————————————————— | | | | Agamemnon Menelaus Aigisthos (= Clytemnestra) (= Helen) (= Clytemnestra) | ———————————————————————— | | | Iphigenia Electra Orestes
(Also, a sister of Agamemnon, name variously given, married Strophios, and was the mother of Pylades.)
II.
Tyndareus = Leda = Zeus | | —————— ————————————————————————— | | | | Clytemnestra Castor Polydeuces Helen