Full Text Search Details
... by E. D. A. Morshead A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Agamemnon by Aeschylus is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Agamemnon by Aeschylus , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. Aeschylus 3 Agamemnon By Aeschylus Written 458 B.C.E Translated by E. D. A. Morshead Dr... ...Dramatis Personae A WATCHMAN CHORUS OF ARGIVE ELDERS CLYTEMNESTRA, wife of AGAMEMNON A HERALD AGAMEMNON, King of Argos CASSANDRA, daughter of Priam, a... ...HERALD AGAMEMNON, King of Argos CASSANDRA, daughter of Priam, and slave of AGAMEMNON ÆGISTHUS, son of Thyestes, cousin of AGAMEMNON Servants, Attenda... ...AMEMNON Servants, Attendants, Soldiers Scene Before the palace of AGAMEMNON in Argos. In front of the palace there are statues of the gods, a... ...discerned a WATCHMAN. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Agamemnon 4 WATCHMAN I pray the gods to quit me of my toils, To close the w... ...g, Greetings to fortune, hail! Let my loud summons ring within the ears Of Agamemnon’s queen, that she anon Start from her couch and with a shrill voi... ... Of Trojan and of Greek, before That iron bridal feast be o’er! Agamemnon 6 But as he willed ‘tis ordered all, And woes...

Description Details
...ectra, and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon....

Description Details
...Sophocles' play dramatizes the aftermath of Agamemnon's murder by his wife Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus. His daughter Electra is hungry for revenge and longs for the return of her brother Orestes to help her achieve her ends. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)...

Description Details
...The Oresteia is a trilogy by Aeschylus, one of the foremost playwrights of ancient Greece. It encompasses three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Furies. It tells the tragic tale of the House of Atreus, whose inhabitants have been cursed and are doomed to play out their bloody, vengeful destinies. At the beginning of the first p...

Description Details
...isse über die menschliche Natur beinhaltet. Gilt als das älteste erhaltene Werk der abendländischen Literatur. Voß übersetzte das den Streit zwischen Agamemnon und Achilleus im Trojanischen Krieg erzählende Werk 1793 aus dem Altgriechischen ins Deutsche. (Zusammenfassung von redaer)...

Description Details
...tells us, the play begins in the middle of the epic conflict, and counterpoints the drama of battle with the romance of the title characters. Just as Agamemnon and his Greek forces (particularly the smooth-tongued Ulysses) attempt to woo the invincible Achilles to resume fighting on their side, the Trojan go-between Pandarus tries to bring together Troilus, a son of King P...

Description Details
...rojan War, the ten-year siege of Ilium, by a coalition of Greek States, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. Although the story covers only a few weeks in the final year of the war, the Iliad mentions or alludes to many of the Greek legends about the siege (Summary from Wikipedia)...

Table of Contents Details
... of the Fourth Book of Horace The Dunciad Book I Book II Book III Book IV The Iliad: Preface The Iliad: Book I The Contention of Achilles and Agamemnon The Iliad: Book II The Trial of the Army and Catalogue of the Forces The Iliad: Book III The Duel of Menelaus and Paris The Iliad: Book IV The Breach of the Truce, and the First Battle The Iliad: Book V The ...

Full Text Search Details
...Hades. (Od. Book 11) Thousands of shadows of those who had lived before (Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus, Ajax who refuses to forgive even after he...

Full Text Search Details
...egisthus did not want to listen to him and he acted madly by assassinating Agamemnon. Ulysses, instead, is a man who acts wisely. There is a part of... ...od, first stole Clytemnestra from her legitimate husband, and then killed Agamemnon upon his return from Troy. Orestes vindicates his father by kill... ...her versions of the myth recount. He didn’t act like Clytemnestra did with Agamemnon, when he returned home from Troy. After her mother’s heart was w... ...he only lived to be able to get her revenge. But had she ever really loved Agamemnon? A poet doesn’t have to transform his I; he must only create m...

Table of Contents Details
.....................................................................................................................................................31 Agamemnon (ag-ă-mem ́-non).................................................................................................................33 Agave (ă-ga ́-ve)....................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ugliness of death, of the ugliness of Achilles’ wrath and of the hybris of Agamemnon, which caused so much grief for the Achaeans. The Odyssey sp... ...make this passage. Apollo incites him continuously to vindicate his father Agamemnon, killed by Aegisthus, conspiring with his mother Clytemnestra. ... ...ving man, watches the shadows of thousands of those who lived in the past (Agamemnon, Achilles, Patroclus, Ajax - who even dead refuses to forgive -... ...stra lies in the fact that the latter manages to actually kill her husband Agamemnon, whereas Penelope does not succeed in doing so, even though her... ...cks into action. Some of these poisons were amply described in the Iliad (Agamemnon, Achilles, Ajax, Paris etc.), but in the Odyssey there are some... ...esult of their insanity. Aegisthus doesn’t listen either and after killing Agamemnon he too dies because of his madness. It is ridiculous to think ... ...l end up having lots of problems with women. How else can we explain why Agamemnon and Achilles receive two beautiful young slaves, Briseis and Cr... ...hates himself because he is not handsome. He is not tall and imposing like Agamemnon, he isn’t strong like Diomedes and he is not an athlete like Ac... ...ns where oratory prowess is needed. 104 He isn’t rich like Menelaus and Agamemnon. He is the king of a little island, Ithaca, where the only weal...

Full Text Search Details
... I can’t remember my father, he died so young. His lineage, extending to Agamemnon, frightens me: That inheritance must carry into these thick walls...

Full Text Search Details
... ―Long before the great teachers Lao Tzu and Confucius, long before Agamemnon attacked Troy, long before Abraham and Sarah—China is. As with ...

Full Text Search Details
... I can’t remember my father, he died so young. His lineage, extending to Agamemnon, frightens me: That inheritance must carry into these thick walls...

Full Text Search Details
...history has been written? Look at Homer‘s history of the Trojan wars. Did Agamemnon, Achilles or Hector actually live? Was there ever a Trojan horse...

Full Text Search Details
... famous remaining evidence of this glorious Greek culture. The story of King Agamemnon returning from the sack of Troy. Where he had spent 7 years ... ... take over the Kingdom. But long before he even left for Troy., so great was Agamemnon’s pride and arrogance and jealousy and hate, and meanness, th... ... that he had banished his own son from his Kingdom. Then his son, hearing of Agamemnon’s murder by his cheating wife; swears to kill his own mother...

Full Text Search Details
....htm (10 of 20)4/10/2005 4:47:47 AM Montaigne's Essays Vixere fortes ante Agamemnona Multi, sed omnes illachrymabiles Urgentur, ignotique longa No... ..., ignotique longa Nocte. -- HOR. Car. 1. iv. Od. ix. 25. Before great Agamemnon and the rest Many liv'd valiant, yet are all supprest, Unmoan'd...

Full Text Search Details
..., Crowes and Dawes: I had rather be 403 such a man as Troylus, then Agamemnon, and all Greece. 404 Cres. There is among the Greekes A... ...Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appeare. Exit. 454 Senet. Enter Agamemnon, Nestor, Vlysses, Diome-des, 455 Menelaus, with others. 456... ...486 Nestor. With due Obseruance of thy godly seat, 487 Great Agamemnon, Nestor shall apply 488 Thy latest words. 489 In the r... ... selfe- same key, 512 Retyres to chiding Fortune. 513 Vlys. Agamemnon: 514 Thou great Commander, Nerue, and Bone of Greece, 515 ... ...life, 521 I giue to both your speeches: which were such, 522 As Agamemnon and the hand of Greece 523 Should hold vp high in Brasse: an... ...e an vniuersall prey, 583 And last, eate vp himselfe. 584 Great Agamemnon: 585 This Chaos, when Degree is suffocate, - 13 - The Trage... ...h Slanderer, he imitation call’s) 611 He Pageants vs. Sometime great Agamemnon, 612 Thy toplesse deputation he puts on; 613 And like a... ... deepe Chest, laughes out a lowd applause, 624 Cries excellent, ’tis Agamemnon iust. 625 Now play me Nestor; hum, and stroke thy Beard 62... ... Aga. What would you ’fore our Tent? 676 Aene. Is this great Agamemnons Tent, I pray you? 677 Aga. Euen this. - 15 - The Trage...