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Scepter of Agamemnon

Objects · Myth & story

The named ancestral sceptre of Agamemnon in Homeric story. Not a was-sceptre, not a sekhem sceptre, and not a generic staff.

Hellenic religion

  • Scepter of Agamemnon appears in Hellenic religion.

    Iliad 2 traces Agamemnon’s ancestral sceptre from Hephaestus through the Argive kings. A named Homeric staff of office, not a was-sceptre and not a generic staff.

    from Homer · Iliad, c. 8th–7th century BCE (this form)

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • Iliad · Homer

    Homer, Iliad.