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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