Word: agamemnon
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...pages, eleven poems. Poet Masefield telescopes the Iliad's 24 books, hitting such high spots as Paris' rape of Helen, Agamemnon's sacrifice of Iphigenia for a favorable wind, and focusing on wily Odysseus' successful gate-crashing scheme of the Wooden Horse. Though he contributes no mighty lines or markedly memorable verse to the Troy legend, Masefield's dramatic narrative, in which different speakers take up the story in turn, adds some freshness of its own to an oft-told tale...
...reverence to the glory that was Greece are raised by an announcement that the Harvard Classical Club will produce the "Philoctetes" of Sophocles next year. Once it was the custom of the Club to present a play annually, and the productions were famed for their excellence. In 1900 "Agamemnon" won the admiration of all classicists the National Students League in partichere and in Europe; even the celebrated Professor R. C. Jebb of Cambridge University praised the performance. But lack of funds has prevented several of the annual productions, and interest in them has waned...
Significance. Even before they went out to dinner, it was fairly obvious to first-afternooners that Playwright O'Neill had moved Greece to New England. Those who knew their Euripides were quick to detect a parallel between Mourning Becomes Electra and the classic tragedy, recalled how Agamemnon, returning from the Trojan War, was killed by his wife (Clymnestra), how the long-lost son Orestes finally killed his mother's lover and his mother at the instigation of Elektra...
...Troy, divorced, he wanted to marry an appropriate Greek wife. He wrote to a friendly Greek archbishop to get him one. Her name was Sophia; she turned out to be not only beautiful but a great help. The children she bore him he insisted on calling Andromache and Agamemnon...
...Patuxent River off Chesapeake Bay are the once magnificent Kronprinzessin Cecilie (now the Shipping Board's Mt. Vernon) which at the outbreak of War made its famed dash into Bar Harbor, Me. with a load of German gold, and the Kaiser Wilhelm II (now the Agamemnon). For these N. G. L. will get $4,287,000 and $3,829,000 respectively...