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Yesterday afternoon the entire play of the "Agamemnon" of Aeschylus was acted in the Stadium for the first time. All the players were dressed in full costume and the performance was accompanied by the music which Mr. J. E. Lodge composed especially for the play...
...chariots and the horses which will be used in the performance, were received on Saturday. There are two chariots, one for Agamemnon and one for Cassandra. They were made especially for this play after suggestions by Professor C. B. Gulick '90 and Dr. G. H. Chase '96, who used for models the chariots on the Parthenon frieze. Both are built on the same design save that one is bronze-colored, and the other is colored a robin's-egg blue. They are decorated with palmette designs in gold...
Yesterday afternoon Professor H. W. Smyth '78 of the Greek Department, who is one of the three professors in charge of the Greek Play, gave a lecture on "The Agamemnon of Aeschylus." After sketching the plot of the drama and outlining the dramatic characteristics of the poet, and of the time in which the play was written, Professor Smyth read a number of selections from Professor Goodwin's translation and criticised the important dramatis personae...
...heritage of Iphigenis, daughter of King Agamemnon and Queen Clytaemnestra, was a calamity provoked by successive violations of the law of God. Deceit, treachery, fatal ambition, adultery, the atrocities, of revenge that studied the refinements of retaliation, the murder of a husband, of a daughter, of a father--these form the tale of the house of Agamemnon. Of this line the most tragic figure is Agamemnon, who slew his daughter as a sacrifice, and, upon his triumphal return from the Trojan war, was ignominiously butchered by his faithless queen. Such, in short, is the plot...
...them in the form of choral odes, make a kind of moral prologue. It may sometimes seem to us that the plot does not advance with sufficient rapidity; at other moments the author seems to bridge over the past and present, disregarding the unity of time. He makes Agamemnon appear at home the morning after Troy was captured. This, Dr. Verrall and other critics consider a monstrous heresy in regrad to unity. But the sheer length of the choral odes creates a sense of the passage of time, so that no incongruity is noticed by the spectator...