2023年7月12日 · Agamemnon laid claim to a number of important epithets in Greek literature. These include anax andrōn, “lord of men”; eury kreiōn, “wide-ruling”; and poimēn laōn, …

2023年3月8日 · Today, the Agamemnon and the Oresteia remain among Aeschylus’ most widely-read and widely-admired works. Translations. Translations of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon usually …

2023年5月24日 · According to most sources, Iphigenia was the firstborn child of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the king and queen of Mycenae. Agamemnon led the Greeks to victory during …

2023年8月18日 · Clytemnestra, daughter of Tyndareus and Leda, was the wife of Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae. She and her lover Aegisthus murdered Agamemnon when he returned …

2023年6月7日 · The Iphigenia in Aulis is one of Euripides’ final plays, first performed after the playwright’s death in 406 BCE. The tragedy is a retelling of the myth of Iphigenia, who was …

2023年10月2日 · Aegisthus was the son of Thyestes, who had long quarreled viciously with his brother Atreus. Aegisthus eventually killed his uncle Atreus, as well as Atreus’ son …

2023年7月12日 · Menelaus and his brother Agamemnon were usually said to be the sons of Atreus. Their mother was Aerope, Atreus’ wife. According to an alternative genealogy, …

2023年5月2日 · But whereas the justice of the Agamemnon and the Libation Bearers is largely based on retribution, the Eumenides moves towards a notion of justice as fundamentally …

2023年9月11日 · But Atreus was avenged by his sons Agamemnon and Menelaus (sometimes known as the “Atreids”), with Agamemnon ultimately becoming king of Mycenae. …

2023年10月5日 · Calchas played a key role in a few episodes of the Trojan War, though his advice often caused him to clash with Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army. It was …