Word: agamemnon
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Rehearsals for the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus, the Greek play, to be produced by the Classical Department in the Stadium, June 16 and 19, have been held regularly since October. This tragedy is the first of the Oresteia, the three plays on the fortunes of the house of Atreus. Representing the highest achievement of Aeschylus and probably of all Greek drama, they form the only extant specimen of a trilogy...
...Agamemnon" offers ample opportunity for spectacular effect. There will be numerous supernumeraries of diverse description. Two chariots, each drawn by two horses, will be used. The actors will not wear the mask nor the high boot of ancient tragedy, but the characteristic rich dress will be reproduced in considerable detail...
...Plot of "Agamemnon...
...beginning of the "Agamemnon," the first of the series of the trilogy, the hero's return from Troy is anxiously awaited at Argos. The play opens with a nocturnal view of the palace at Mycenae, from the roof of which a watchman details in picturesque prologue, the long weariness of his watch for the beacon light, that should announce the fall of Troy. At length, seeing the beacon flash out, he shouts the good news to the people in the palace, but not without a dark word of foreboding for the future. Twelve old men of Mycenae, who form...
...messenger bids them prepare a loyal welcome for Agamemnon. Clytaemnestra then appears and tells of her joy at the knowledge of her husband's victorious home-coming. After the departure of the messenger, who before leaving, recounts the storms that scattered the Greek fleet, the chorus sings the second stasimon...