Agamemnon’s Role in the Iliad

Abstract

Abstract We have a good idea of what a succinct characterization of Agamemnon in the Iliad should look like: phrases such as ‘physically courageous, morally weak’ or more fully ‘A good fighter, he is arrogant and brusque when confident of success ... easily deceived and prone to misunderstand . . . combines the self confident and defeatist sides ... ‘.1 For myself! like ‘cloaked in unscrupulousness’ or ‘wrapped in lack of moral sense’, which is of course what Achilles calls him at 1.

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