Book
Agamemnon
Kindle Edition
Aeschylus
Start Publishing LLC · Ebook · March 21, 2013
Reading lane: Classical Plays
Aeschylus' Agamemnon, first produced in 458 BC, is the opening play in his Oresteian trilogy.
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Who It's For
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Book Details
- Authors
- Aeschylus
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- March 21, 2013
- Format
- Ebook
- Theme
- Classical Plays
- Reading lane
- Classical Plays
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- 100%
Publisher Categories
Classical Plays
About This Book
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 Englis...
