Word: agamemnon
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...accumulated still an other pot of money, and finally retired at 41 with an ambition that seemed to have blown into his skull like an owl through an open window. He wanted to find Troy, the fortified city to which Paris abducted Helen, and which the Achaean heroes Menelaus, Agamemnon, Ajax, Achilles and Odysseus be sieged for ten years...
Marble Mansion. By the time Europe's scholars had grudgingly accepted the Schliemanns' discovery, the two had repeated their feat of literary and archaelogical detection by finding a second trove of prehistoric gold artifacts in a series of ancient royal tombs. One of them was perhaps Agamemnon's burial site at Mycenae...
...know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. -Aeschylus, Agamemnon...
...this, Fitzgerald began his reading by delivering the opening verses in Greek, with a warmth that left some of the audience reluctant to turn to English. But, reading the opening passage of his translation, Fitzgerald carried the audience through all the fine dramatic fluctuations of Achilles' initial dispute with Agamemnon...
...bulk of the play is a retelling of the Oresteia legend, and it makes for some restive or torpid listening depending on the playgoer's mood. The basic story line is intact. With his fleet becalmed on the way to Troy, Agamemnon (W.B. Brydon) sacrifices his daughter Iphigenia to win the gods' favor. His embittered wife Clytemnestra takes a lover, Aegisthus, who murders Agamemnon upon his return from the war. The dead king's son, Orestes, goaded to revenge by his sister Electra, proceeds to murder his mother and Aegisthus. Rabe has drastically minimized Electra...