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CHRISTOPHER BARON

University of Notre Dame

Collective name for AGAMEMNON and MENELAUS, the sons of ATREUS, mythical king of MYCENAE. Herodotus mentions the brothers’ expedition to TROY (to recover Helen) as one of the massive expeditions in Greek history (“according to the story,” kata ta legomena), only to say that their force in no way compared to that of XERXES in size (7.20.2). He thus impresses his reader with the sheer scale of Xerxes’ endeavor (Shimron 1973, 46–47).

SEE ALSO: Historical Method; Myth; Trojan War