What is the importance of Mycenae in the novel, A Thousand Ships?

We do not spend long in Mycenae, but long enough to watch Agamemnon’s bathetic homecoming. Once he has awkwardly processed into his palace, his people are left abandoned: “The old men of Mycenae did not know where to go now their king had returned but their sons had not” (303). Partly as revenge for sacrificing his daughter, Iphigenia, and partly as justice for starting a destructive war, Agamemnon is killed by his wife Clytemnestra. That this should happen in his own home demonstrates the power of war to wreak havoc and invert the stable order of things. It is in his own domain that his actions return to haunt him, as the Furies dance in the halls of his palace.