Agamemnon

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Excerpt from Agamemnon: With Introduction and NotesThe Agamemnon is one of a set of three plays which all dealt with the same story, each constituting as it were one act of a great drama. Such sets were called trilogies, and according to the ordinary theory were acted on the same occasion, and were usually followed by a fourth play of a lighter cast (called Satyric dramas, from the Satyr or attendant of Dionysos, which originally was a leading part in it): the whole four being called a tetralogy. The subject of the Satyric play in this instance is traditionally recorded to have been Proteus.' Considerable doubt has been thrown upon this theory of trilogies or tetralogies, but it is at least clear that the three plays in' this case were all composed by the poet with reference to each other. The Agamemnon relates the return and murder of the king (the Crime), in the second play, the Choéphoroe, Orestes comes back and slays his mother Klytaemnestra (the Vengeance), while in the third, the Eume nides, the'matricide is released from the furies who have pur sued him, and acquitted by divine interposition before the Areio pagos at Athens (the Reconciliation). About the Proteus we know nothing'.The date of the Agamemnon IS given as B. C. 4 58 and the poet won the first prize.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.