Agamemnon
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Agamemnon Details
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.
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Reviews
It is a brilliant story. Aeschylus doesn't reveal everything at once, but gradually unveils the answers that a thoughtful audience inevitably asks. It is beautiful and seems like the forerunner to the modern story/novel, where the drama builds and much is revealed as it proceeds. Great use of the chorus to lead the audience/reader.I read a modern translation in parallel and, by that, I was able to follow along. It is a crime that we depend on older/anachronistic English translations, but I have found none in verse form. I appreciated the rhyming verse of this translation because it seemed truer to the original form.
