Ancient Greek Tragedy: Matricide vs. Patricide & Revenge Atreus' sons Agamemnon and Menelaus are best known from the Trojan War the 10-year siege to bring back Menelaus' wife Helen who had been abducted by Paris of Troy While the men were away at war Agamemnon's wife Clytemnestra had taken Aegisthus as her lover and had no loyalty or love left for her husband who had sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia to the goddess Artemis on his way to Troy in return for safe passage. When Agamemnon returned