The star gold token hand of fate 27/26/2023 ![]() That guards the city, the deep, the high, What tale or tiding hath stirred thy mood Queen Clytemnestra, what need? What news? [ Coming near the Central Altar they see CLYTEMNESTRA, who is still With tears, but never the wrath shall moveĪnd they left us here for our flesh is oldĪ strength like the strength of a child at play.įor the sap that springs in the young man’s handĪnd the valour of age, they have left the land.Īnd the passing old, while the dead leaf blowsĪnd the old staff gropeth his three-foot way, ![]() So Zeus the Watcher of Friend and Friend,įor Greek and Trojan, the knee earth-bent, Of the stranger wronged in God’s own sky Īnd sendeth down, for the law transgressed, Their task gone from them, no more to keep Great wings like oars in the waste of sky, If stones had speech, what tale were theirs to tell. ![]() A great ox hath laid his weightĪcross my tongue. My dear lord’s hand, returning! Beyond that Oh, good or ill, my hand shall clasp again Good, and mine own to-night three sixes plain. To this glad lamp her women’s triumph-song, To rise, like dawn, and lift in answer strong Suddenly at a distance in the night there isĪ glimmer of fire, increasing presently to a blaze.]įor this great end! All hail!-What ho, within! The flame of good news flashed across the night. Howbeit, may God yet send us rest, and light Of this house, not well mastered as of old. Think I perchance to sing or troll a tuneįor medicine against sleep, the music soon To close may close too well to wake again That bears Troy’s capture on a voice of flameĭew-drenched and dark and stumbling, to which nearĬometh no dream nor sleep, but alway Fearīreathes round it, warning, lest an eye once fain Great lords and shining, throned in heavenly fire.Īnd still I await the sign, the beacon pyre Of swarming stars, and them that lonely go, God for some respite, watching elbow-stayed,Īs sleuthhounds watch, above the Atreidae’s hall, This waste of year-long vigil I have prayed On a high terrace of the roof stands a WATCHMAN. The Scene represents a space in front of the Palace of Agamemnon in Argos, with an Altar of Zeus in the centre and many other altars at the sides. The first prize was won by Aeschylus with the “Agamemnon”, “Libation-Bearers”, “Eumenides”, and the Satyr Play “Proteus”. The play was produced in the archonship if Philocles (458 B.C.). The Greeks are also referred to as Achaians, Argives, Danaans Troy is also called Ilion. ![]() PARIS, son of Priam, King of Troy, lover of Helen. HELEN, _most beautiful of women daughter of Tyndareus, wife to MENELÂÜS beloved and carried off by Paris._ The two sons of Atreus are called the Atreidae. MENELÂÜS, brother to Agamemnon, husband of Helen, and King of Sparta. AGAMEMNON CHARACTERS IN THE PLAYĪGAMEMNON, son of Atreus and King of Argos and Mycenae Ĭommander-in-Chief of the Greek armies in the War against Troy.ĬLYTEMNESTRA, daughter of Tyndareus, sister of Helen wife to Agamemnon.ĪIGISTHOS, son of Thyestes, cousin and blood-enemy to Agamemnon lover to Clytemnestra.ĬASSANDRA, daughter of Priam, King of Troy, a prophetess now slave to Agamemnon.ĬHORUS of Argive Elders, faithful to AGAMEMNON. REGIUS PROFESSOR OF GREEK IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD ![]()
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