The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

Name: The Agamemnon of Aeschylus
Author: Aeschylus

by Aeschylus

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The Agamemnon of Aeschylus Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes

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~2 hours (117K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Paul Murray, Charles Bidwell and the PG Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Release date

2004-12-22

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character) -- Drama

About the author

Aeschylus

-525–-456

Among the earliest great tragedians of ancient Greece, he helped shape drama into a serious art form. His surviving plays, including the Oresteia, still feel grand, tense, and full of questions about justice, power, and the gods.

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