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Word: slewed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
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...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The "Agamemnon of Aeschylus" | 6/12/1906 | See Source »

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