Word: paramours
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...Agamemnon," which will be given in the Stadium on June 16 and 19, is the tragic tale of the great leader of the host against Troy. Agamemnon, after ten years of absence from Troy, returns at the beginning of the trilogy to find his queen, Clytaemestra, living with her paramour, Aegisthus. The king, however, brings the captive Trojan priestess, Cassandra, in his train, and if the queen is guilty, her lord is not free from blame. The most dramatic scene of the play is that in which Cassandra before the palace doors vividly foresees the fate that awaits both herself...
...play is performed exclusively by students of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and yesterday afternoon they reflected much credit upon their school by performing difficult parts of the tragedy with great carefulness and impressiveness. Agamemnon, on his return from Troy, had been murdered by his wife, and her paramour. Orestes, son of Agamemnon, then a child, had been rescued from the clutches of his father's murderers by his sister Electra, and sent into Phocis. Eight years later he returns to take vengeance for his father's death, and by the aid of the god Apollo, succeeds...