Agamemnon

by Aeschylus

Overview

Aeschylus' Agamemnon, first produced in 458 BC, is the opening play in his Oresteian trilogy. Agamemnon returns home after the Trojan Wars with his concubine Cassandra and is murdered by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus. The ensuing blood feud continues until the third and final play, Eumenides, when peace is finally restored to the house of the Atreidae. It is a powerful and moving play which is difficult to interpret and which for a long time lacked an English edition.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625588470
Publisher:	Start Publishing LLC
Publication date:	03/21/2013
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	55
File size:	137 KB

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Sleep disappears and in its stead
            the memory of pain
drips around the restless heart
            a never-ending rain.
Self-knowledge comes to those who wish
            and those who wish it not.
Our helmsmen are divinities,
            and they’re a violent lot.
—chorus from Agamemnon

Table of Contents

Preface                       
Introduction   
 
Agamemnon    

Editorial Reviews

"Mulroy's rendering could well become the standard text for students of classics in English, as pre-reading for those attempting the difficult Greek, and possibly as an acting version. . . . It is the best [translation] this reviewer has come across."
—Classics for All

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