Word: agamemnon
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...Spectator, speaking of the representation of the Ajax at Cambridge recently, says: "Some one said at the time that to compare the Oxford 'Agamemnon' to the Harvard 'OEdipus' was to compare a picnic with a banquet. If this were true of Harvard, it is equally true that the Ajax is well able to hold...
...denied at the time, but was soon obliged to recant. Within the Agora of Mycenae five tombs were opened, and the many golden ornaments found therein undoubtedly belong to the Heroic Age. The speaker thought that although Schleimann has not made the romantic discovery of the tombs of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra upon the hill at Hissarlik, yet he has made discoveries more important to archaeology. Out of its height of 112 feet, the real hill of Hissarlik is but 60 feet, the remaining 52 feet being composed of the accumulated ruins of six cities. The third of these buried cities...
Greek Readings. Agamemnon of Aeschylus (verse 1177 to the end). Professor Goodwin, Sever...
Greek Readings. "Agamemnon of AEschylus." Professor Goodwin. Sever...
...great deal more in the same language; and one boy said it was Ponca, and meant that Mr. Wendell Parnell would discuss the Irish question in Holden basement. Another said it had just come over from Assos, and was a Christmas card designed by Agamemnon. But whatever it was, my aunt swooned at the sight and was carried to the college hospital, where, surrounded by luxury and a circle of happy friends, she died...