Name: Agamemnon
Rating: 3.607142857142857 (28 reviews)

Aeschylus

Agamemnon

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including0 suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Agamemnon is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation and Drama. Useful features include full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Agamemnon is aimed primarily at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America.

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

Nice one. Not my favourite author and not even his best tragedy tho.

Gemma

Tina

Sofia Collodel

Linda

Jessica Coburn

Raphaëlle

Catherine

Abby

Vikram Sreekanti

Kaela Childers

Gaurav Verma

Mariana Mendes

Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War, bringing with him the seer Cassandra as his war-prize and concubine. Awaiting him is his vengeful wife Clytemnestra, who is angry at Agamemnon's sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia to the gods, jealous of Cassandra, and guilty of taking a lover herself. The events that unfold catch everyone in a bloody net, including their absent son Orestes. Aeschylus was the first of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, a forerunner of Sophocles and Euripides. His earlier tragedies were largely choral pageants with minimal plots. In Agamemnon, he retains the lyricism of those works, but he infuses this drama with such creativity and energy that the spectator or reader is constantly spellbound. From the speech of the weary watchman on the roof, lying on his forepaws like a dog, to the blood-splattered Clytemnestra who likens herself to a garden in bloom, passage after passage demands to be included in anthologies of Greece's greatest poems. Translator David Mulroy brings this ancient tragedy to life for modern readers and audiences. Using end rhyme and strict metrics, he combines the buoyant lyricism of the Greek text with a faithful rendering of its meaning in lucid English. The Agamemnon no longer needs to be called a difficult play.

Olivera Mitić

Tiffanie Dang

Ten years since Ilion's righteous foes, The Atreidae strong, Menelaüs and eke Agamemnon arose, Two thrones, two sceptres, yoked of God;And a thousand galleys of Argos trod The seas for the righting of wrong;And wrath of battle about them cried, As vultures cry, Whose nest is plundered, and up they flyIn anguish lonely, eddying wide, Great wings like oars in the waste of sky, Their task gone from them, no more to keepWatch o'er the vulture babes asleep.But One there is who heareth on highSome Pan or Zeus, some lost Apollo-That keen bird-throated suffering cryOf the stranger wronged in God's own sky;And sendeth down, for the law transgressed, The Wrath of the Feet that follow.

Original Text

The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Infamous Millimetre

pam a lamb

Agamemnon

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