Now Agamemnon's was a continental power; and he could not have been master of any except the adjacent islands (and these would not be many), but through the possession of a fleet. And from this expedition we may infer the character of earlier enterprises.“ Of many an isle, and of all Argos king.
”Hom. Il. 2.108
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9.
What enabled Agamemnon to raise the armament
was more, in my opinion, his superiority in strength, than the oaths of
Tyndareus, which bound the Suitors to follow him.
[2]
Indeed, the account given by those Peloponnesians who have been the
recipients of the most credible tradition is this. First of all Pelops, arriving among a needy population from Asia with vast
wealth, acquired such power that, stranger though he was, the country was
called after him; and this power fortune saw fit materially to increase in the hands of his
descendants. Eurystheus had been killed in Attica by the Heraclids. Atreus was his mother's brother; and to the hands of his relation, who had left his father on account of the
death of Chrysippus, Eurystheus, when he set out on his expedition, had
committed Mycenae and the government. As time went on and Eurystheus did not return, Atreus complied with the
wishes of the Mycenaeans, who were influenced by fear of the
Heraclids,—besides, his power seemed considerable, and he had not
neglected to court the favour of the populace,—and assumed the
sceptre of Mycenae and the rest of the dominions of Eurystheus. And so the power of the descendants of Pelops came to be greater than that
of the descendants of Perseus.
[3]
To all this Agamemnon succeeded. He had also a navy far stronger than his contemporaries, so that, in my
opinion, fear was quite as strong an element as love in the formation of the
confederate expedition.
[4]
The strength of his navy is shown by the fact that his own was the largest
contingent, and that of the Arcadians was furnished by him; this at least is what Homer says, if his testimony is deemed sufficient.
Besides, in his account of the transmission of the sceptre, he calls
him
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