Tragic heroes also suffer from excessive pride or hubris in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. The play's tragic hero, Agamemnon exhibits his hubris in the play by choosing to sacrifice his daughter over dereliction or failure of duty. He made the tragic mistake of sacrificing his daughter's life to the gods in hopes that they would send strong winds to blow his armies' ships towards Troy for the Trojan War. After sacrificing his daughter, he eventually arrived at Troy where he fought for several years. In Agamemnon, Agamemnon has arrived to his kingdom after nine years and is unaware of the doom that awaits him. Unlike Creon and Antigone, Agamemnon really is not an opposing force to a conflict in the story. Creon and Antigone directly inverse each other creating the clash between the two opposing arguments while Agamemnon is represented as an honorable war hero who made a tragic error in judgment which ultimately leads to his downfall in the story. He gives ut-most respect and honor to the gods and claims that the god's are responsible for his arrival and victory. " First, with justice I salute my Argos and my gods, my accomplices who brought me home and won my rights from Priam's Troy- the just gods."2 Agamemnon is represented as a character who appreciates his triumphs and is satisfied with his arrival at his kingdom where else in Antigone, we see the two characters Creon and Antigone who possess an eternal passion to succeed the each other and are unwilling to submit to compromise.

             The tragic heroes of both works inherit a family curse. Agamemnon is a descendant of the cursed house of Atreus. King Atreus was the son of Pelops. His father, Tantalus of Lydia, who was the founder of the family on which the Oresteia encircles, served Pelops to the gods as a meal. His brother, Thyestes, cursed him for feasting him on his own children's flesh. Atreus had two sons, Agamemnon and Menelaus, who inherited the curse.