Word: agamemnon
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...started in 1880, when a portrayal of Agamemnon in Greek at Balliol College of Oxford stimulated the Harvard Greek department into action...
Five years later the Club moved out to Harvard Stadium to stage its most magnificient spectacle, Agamemnon by Aeschylus. Under a light drizzle, a large audience gathered at the far end of the horseshoe to watch the Greek tragedy produced as it originally was. The setting was complete with horses and chariots, nothing less than a "brillant pageant, typical of the heroic days of ancient Greece," as the Herald enthusiastically said...
...time. Boston has become less sedate, and the performance will be less pretentious, but the idea is certainly as ambitious. Whether the critics rave again remains to be seen. But few will think that Greek drama has died at Harvard after the show has closed.For the 1906 production of Agamemnon, the Harvard Stadium was filled with a rather unusual brand of warrior...
...name from the Greek word for copper, or whether it was just the other way around. For 30 centuries before the birth of Christ, much of the copper known to the Mediterranean world came from Cyprus, where clumps of almost pure metal once lay loose on the ground. Agamemnon was said to have sailed for Troy carrying a brand-new sword of Cyprian copper. The weapon Alexander the Great brandished against his enemies was the gift of a Cypriot king...
Principal Events: Ten years of stalemate had set Greek nerves on edge, and Hero Achilles quarreled at last with King Agamemnon over a slave girl. Thereafter, while his countrymen lost battle after battle, Achilles sulked in his tent. Disaster threatened. Patroclus, the hero's friend, drove the Trojans back to their gates, but was killed by Hector, who then led a charge that nearly hurled the frightened Greeks into the sea. Forth then Achilles to avenge his friend. The heroes met, and Hector was killed. Achilles himself died at the hand of Paris, whose arrow found his heel...