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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1868. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE AGAMEMNON. THE PERSONS OF THE DRAMA. A Sentinel. The Chorus of Argive Elders. Clytcemnestra. Talthybius, a herald. Agamemnon. Cassandra. sEgisthus. THE ARGUMENT. Agamemnon, on his departure for Troy, promised Clytaemnestra, if he should sack Troy, on the same day to send a signal by means of a fire beacon. Wherefore Clytaemnestra established a watcher for hire to look out for the beacon. And he saw and reported it; she sends for a multitude of Elders, to tell them concerning the beacon, of whom the chorus is constituted; and they on hearing the news chant a paean. And after no long time Talthybius arrives and narrates the circumstances of the expedition. And Agamemnon comes on a car, and another car was following him, in which were the spoils and Cassandra. And he goes before into the house with Clytaemnestra. And Cassandra foretells, before she enters the palace, her own and Agamemnon's death and the matricide of Orestes casts off her garlands and rushes wildly in as one about to die. This part of the drama one admires as calculated to excite wonder and pity. jEschylus, after his custom, has made the murder of Agamemnon to take place behind the scenes, and says nothing of Cassandra's death, but subsequently discloses her corpse. And he has made iEgisthus and Clytaemnestra each discourse violently concerning the death of Agamemnon on separate grounds, the one because of the slaying of Iphigenia, and the other because of the ill-treatment of his father Thyestes at the hands of Atreus. The prologua is spoken by the sentinel, a servant of Agamemnon's. THE AGAMEMNON. Scene I. Night.--The Palace Roof at Argos. Sentinel. I ever pray the gods these toils may end, All through my year's watch, keeping which by night On the Atridae's housetop, head on arm, Outstretch:...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150501790
- ISBN 13 9781150501791
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages42
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