The Agamemnon of Aeschylus

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Excerpt from The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: A Revised Text and a TranslationM 6225bearing offerings by which Clytaemnestra hoped to propitiate the shade of her murdered husband. The Princess is accompanied by her handmaidens, consisting of captive Trojan women, who form the chorus of Libation-pourers. Despite their long separation, brother and sister recognize each other and prepare to avenge their murdered father. Orestes disguises himself and reappears as a stranger, who tells the Queen a false message of his own death, which she receives with feigned grief. Orestes is lodged within the palace, and the absent Aegisthus is sent for, but returns only to meet his death. His. Cries summon Clytaemnestra, who discovers his dead body, and beside it the stranger in whom she divines her own son. The mother at first appeals for pity, then, regaining courage, threatens her son with madness from the Furies, who avenge the crime of matricide. Clytaemnestra is driven within and killed by Orestes, who reappears bearing the blood-stained robe in which his father had been entangled in the bath. Orestes then declares his purpose to seek purification at Apollo's shrine at Delphi, but sees the avenging Furies of his mother, who are visible to him alone, and rushes forth pursued by them.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.