Since I do not have a copy of the original Greek, this summary of Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon” is based on the English translation of the tragedy that Moses Hadas wrote in the anthology “Drama Graeca” from Bantum Classic. A.W. Verral is a translator. The story begins with a prologue spoken by a watcher. For a year […]
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Aeschylus was a writer of tragedies who lived in the ancient Greek city of Athens. He treats the country city with honor in the drama entitled “Eumenides”. “Eumenides” is a more unusual tragedy. No one dies and has a happy ending. But it is the third story of the trilogy, in which there is plenty […]
In classical Greek literature, the deities of time were often represented in a variety of ways, from small to much more substantial. Minor functions simply consist of the character or actions of a particular deity being mentioned in the discourse, perhaps by implication, or by insinuations throughout the story that the gods were involved in […]