... he won the war, and brought the city of Troy to ruins. Although he salutes his gods, Agamemnon does not praise them as his betters. Instead he calls upon them almost as if they were his equals, his 'divine counterparts'. By saying "I salute my gods, my accomplices who brought me home and won my rights from Priam's Troy" Agamemnon almost reduces the gods to his lieutenants on the battlefield; to mere pawns in his great enterprise, not the all powerful beings who engineered the whole thing. So we can see that Agamemnon shows great disregard and even blasphemy towards the gods. Another example of the king wanting to set himself above the gods, is when Clytaemnestra cunningly induces him to walk up to the palace on the sacred crimson tapestries. Although Agamemnon realises it is wrong, saying, "give me the tributes of a man and not a god", he ...

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