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1. "Cassandra and Agamemnon"
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- Cassandra and Agamemnon.
- Aeschylus's Agamemnon tells the story of the Greek hero Agamemnon's fateful return home to Myceneae, where his wife Clytaemnestra waits to kill him. ...
- The tragedy begins with Clytaemnestra awaiting Agamemnon's return from Troy, her secret lover and accomplice Aegisthus waiting for her instructions in the palace. Clytaemnestra has perfectly legitimate reasons for despising Agamemnon; he killed her former husband, Tantalus, and her baby, he married her by force, he ordered the sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia in order to calm the winds when the Greeks prepared to set sail for Troy, and he left her alone, sailing away to a war which lasted ten years. (Euripides Iphigeneia in Aulis 1148, Sophocles Electra 531) Plus, Clytaemnestra hears that Agamemnon is bringing back with him a concubine who was said to be a prophetess. There is even information leading to the notion that Cassandra bore Agamemnon twin sons, named Teledamus and Pelops. ...
- When Agamemnon and Cassandra arrive, Clytaemnestra greets them warmly and tries to comfort her in her misery of slavery. ... When Agamemnon follows his wife inside the palace, Cassandra remains outside, caught in a trance, refusing to enter the palace. ...
- Meanwhile, Clytaemnestra beheads Agamemnon with an axe, and chases Cassandra to kill her with the same weapon. (Electra 99, 445-6, Agamemnon 1372, 1535) Cassandra's head rolls to the ground, and Aegisthus is said to have killed her twin sons by Agamemnon. As to where the bodies of Agamemnon and Cassandra are buried, the Spartans claim that Agamemnon is buried at Amyclae, where the tomb and statue of Clytaemnestra and the sanctuary and statue of Cassandra are found. Another story tells how Agamemnon's tomb stands among the ruins of Myceneae, close to those of his charioteer, his comrades murdered with him by Aegisthus, and of Cassandra's twins. ...
- Cassandra and Agamemnon .
2. Agamemnon
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- Agamemnon.
- Agamemnon, king of Mycenae, had a hard row to hoe. ... Agamemnon's father Atreus killed his own nieces and nephews and served them up to his brother Thyestes in a pie. ... Agamemnon's brother was Menelaus, king of Sparta, and husband of Helen the fair. ... In addition, Agamemnon was obliged as greatest of the kings to avenge this blow to Greek honor. ... But the proper winds failed to blow , and Agamemnon's prophet Calchas told him that he had offended Artemis and she demanded appeasement by the sacrifice of Agamemnon's own daughter Iphigeneia. So there was Agamemnon, between a rock and a hard place. ... He went ahead with the sacrifice and the Greeks went on to Troy, where for Agamemnon it was one damned thing after another: plague and pestilence, nagging priests, heroes with smelly wounds, uncooperative Trojans, problems over concubines, and a sulking Achilles who threatened to take his marbles and go home. Meanwhile, back at Mycenae, Aegisthus seduced Clytemnestra and took Agamemnon's place as king. But it was Clytemnestra who really wore the tunic around the palace, for when Agamemnon returned from Troy with a concubine in tow, it was Clytemnestra who butchered him in the bath with a battleaxe, jealous perhaps about the concubine, but more important by far, still seething with resentment that he had countenanced the death of their daughter Iphigeneia. Not long afterward Orestes, son of Agamemnon, faced a dilemma not unlike the one that faced his father at Aulis: he was honor bound to avenge his death, but could only do so by murdering his mother. ...
3. Agamemnon
- www.pantheon.org
- Agamemnon.
- Agamemnon was the son of Atreus and the brother of Menelaus. ...
- The seer Calchas revealed that their misfortune was due to Agamemnon, who had boasted that he equalled Artemis in hunting; the winds would only change if Agamemnon's daughter Iphigenia was sacrificed. Agamemnon reluctantly agreed to the sacrifice, but Artemis herself whisked Iphigenia away from the altar and substituted a deer in her place. ...
- During the seige of Troy, Agamemnon offended the greatest of the Greek warriors, Achilles, when he took the girl Briseis from him. Achilles' anger with Agamemnon furnished the mainspring of the plot in the Iliad. After the sack of Troy, Agamemnon acquired Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam, as his concubine, and took her home with him to Greece. ...
- Agamemnon had an unhappy homecoming. ... In either case, Aegisthus had become the lover of Clytemnestra, and the two together murdered Agamemnon and Cassandra shortly after their arrival. Aegisthus and Clytemnestra then ruled Agamemnon's kingdom, but were eventually killed by Agamemnon's son, Orestes (or by Orestes and Electra in some accounts). The homecoming of Agamemnon and its aftermath were favorite subjects for Greek tragedy. ...
- The story of Agamemnon, as told by Thomas Bulfinch. ...
- Agamemnon.
4. Agamemnon Sunshine Coast
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- These unique waterfront properties are located on the Agamemnon Channel.
- Agamemnon Channel is 10 minutes from Pender Harbour in beautiful British Columbia Canada. ...
5. Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Agamemnon
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- Ships of the World: An Historical Encyclopedia - - HMS Agamemnon.
- HMS Agamemnon .
- Laid down in 1849, launched in 1852, and commissioned the following year, the ship-rigged steam battleship Agamemnon was the first warship built with screw propulsion, though other sailing vessels had been fitted with engines after commissioning. Agamemnon's success was such that she remained the basic model for the first decade of Britain's steam battlefleet. ...
- In 1857 the British government fitted out Agamemnon to carry 1,250 tons of telegraphic cable for the Atlantic Telegraph Company's first attempt to lay a transatlantic telegraph cable. ... Agamemnon and her American counterpart USS Niagara spliced their cable ends in midatlantic on July 29 and then sailed for their respective continents. With William Thompson, the future Lord Kelvin, monitoring the progress of the 1,020 miles of cable, Agamemnon reached Valentia Bay in County Kerry, Ireland, on August 5, 1858. ... ) After service on the Caribbean and North American stations, Agamemnon was paid off in 1862 and sold in 1870.
6. Agamemnon Study Guide
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- Agamemnon.
- Story of Agamemnon.
- Focus on Agamemnon.
- Greek tragedies are often family tragedies: Agamemnon, for example, harks back to the sacrifice of a child (Iphigenia), enacts the murder of a spouse (Agamemnon), and looks forward to the murder of a parent (Clytemnestra). ...
- Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides.
- For example, in one version of the legend of Iphigenia, she is sacrificed by her father Agamemnon at Aulis so that Artemis will allow favorable winds for the Greek fleet to sail to Troy. This sacrifice is used in the Agamemnon as a motive for Clytemnestra's murder of her husband. ...
- Agamemnon.
- Clytemnestra and her lover, Aegisthus, kill Agamemnon when he returns home from the Trojan War.
- Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, kills Clytemnestra, his own mother, to avenge her murder of Agamemnon.
- Agamemnon.
- lover of Clytemnestra; cousin of Agamemnon.
- daughter of Priam; war-prize of Agamemnon; speaks truth and is not believed; murdered by Clytemnestra.
- wife of Agamemnon; sister of Helen; mother of Electra, Iphigenia and Orestes; lover of Aegisthus; murders Agamemnon and Cassandra.
- daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; sacrificed by Agamemnon to receive favorable winds to sail to Troy.
- son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra; brother of Iphigenia; murders Clytemnestra; driven mad by Furies; cleansed by Apollo; set free by Court of Aeropagus.
7. Agamemnon, an introduction to the play by Aeschylus
- www.theatredatabase.com
- AGAMEMNON.
- AGAMEMNON is the first play of a trilogy, of three pieces dealing with successive stages of a tragic story. ... In the Agamemnon, we see the king return from Troy, to be welcomed treacherously by his false wife and to be slain by her and her accomplice. In the second play of the series, the Choëphori, we are made spectators to the vengeance of Orestes, the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, with the slaying of the assassins; and in the third piece, the Eumenides, we see the atonement made by Orestes for his matricide. Of all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, the Agamemnon is probably the most effective when acted before a modern audience. ...
- In Agamemnon, there can be but little doubt that the protagonist impersonated only Clytemnestra, leaving the deuteragonist the briefer parts of the Herald, Cassandra, and ægisthus, and to the tritagonist the Watchman and Agamemnon.
- Agamemnon - A synopsis and analysis of the play. ...
- Agamemnon - Clytemnestra's monologue from the play. ...
- Agamemnon - Another of Clytemnestra's monologues. ...
- Agamemnon - Aegisthos' monologue from the play. ...
8. Agamemnon
- www.imagi-nation.com
- Agamemnon.
- Menelaus' brother, Agamemnon, King of Argos, had been elected head of the armies promptly assembled from all the Greek cities for the purpose of avenging the injury to Menelaus. ...
- During these ten years Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's faithless queen, had taken for her lover, Aegisthus, blood enemy of Agamemnon's house. ... Almost on the heels of the announcement Agamemnon himself arrives with many captives and loads of booty in his train. ...
- Now among the captives is Cassandra, the seeress daughter of the Trojan King, whom Agamemnon had taken as his concubine. Scarcely have Clytemnestra and Agamemnon entered the palace when Cassandra falls into a trance and foretells the murder of both Agamemnon and herself by the faithless queen. ... She reminds them that ten years before Agamemnon had sacrificed her daughter, Iphigenia, to propitiate the gods and gain calm seas for the Grecian fleet. ...
- But the wiser heads among them counsel discretion and remind them that in his son, Orestes, now approaching manhood, Agamemnon will shortly find a natural avenger.
9. Agamemnon and The Odyssey essays
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- Agamemnon and The Odyssey.
- Agamemnon and The Odyssey .
- He is Agamemnon's cousin, and as he rejoices over the murder, we learn the history of the ancestral curse that has led to the King's death. Aegisthus' father, Thyestes, tried unsuccessfully to seize the crown from Agamemnon's father, Atreus, and was exiled from Argos. ...
10. Agamemnon.net - Home
- www.agamemnon.net
- Agamemnon. ...
- Welcome to Agamemnon. ...
- Welcome to Agamemnon. ...
- Agamemnon (ag-a-mem'non) : .
11. Graphium agamemnon
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12. Agamemnon Home Page
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- AGAMEMNON aims at providing a visitor to a site of historical interest with a personalised, information enriched experience through 3G cell. phones and at the same time contributing to the preservation of cultural heritage Project Description: AGAMEMNON is a project co-funded undert the IST 6th Framework Program of the European Commission, and it started on the 1st of January 2004. ...
- Agamemnon will drive them through a personalised itinerary, created according to their interests and time available. ... Agamemnon will also contribute to optimise the visith path (avoid over-crowding situations) and to the preservation of the site by sending images taken by visitors to site guardians. ...
- Agamemnon on CORDIS.
- Agamemnon on "La Repubblica" 31/05/2004.
- Agamemnon on "City Milano" 25/11/2004.
- Agamemnon on "Il Mattino" 07/01/2005.
- The golden Agamemnon Mask 16th century BC from Tomb V at Mycenae National Archeological Museum, Athens.
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