The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the Agamemnon depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The la...

Agamemnon, son of Atreus and King of Argos and Mycenae; Commander-in-Chief of the Greek armies in the War against Troy Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus, sister of Helen; wife to Agamemnon Aigisthos...

The chief characters in the play belong to one family, as is shown by the two genealogies:⁠— (Also, a sister of Agamemnon, name variously given, married Strophios, and was the mother of Pylades.)...

(Also, a sister of Agamemnon, name variously given, married Strophios, and was the mother of Pylades.)...

The Scene represents a space in front of the Palace of Agamemnon in Argos, with an Altar of Zeus in the centre and many other altars at the sides. On a high terrace of the roof stands a Watchman. It i...

See my Four Stages of Greek Religion, p. 47. Cornford, From Religion to Philosophy, Chapter I. See also the fine pages on the Agamemnon in the same writer’s Thucydides Mythistoricus, pp. 144, ff. (E. ...