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  • **Agamemnon **The Libation Bearers (Choephoroi) **The Eumenides ... ====Agamemnon==== [[Image:Murder of agamemnon.jpg|thumb|250px|The Murder ...
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  • legend, Mycenae was the capital city of Agamemnon, famous for his sacking ... artifacts, including the "mask of Agamemnon." Today, Mycenae is ...
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  • Actaeon and Chione, and grimly punishes Agamemnon and Niobe, was also the ... In the months leading up to the Trojan War, Agamemnon managed to offend ...
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  • with the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon, and ends with the funeral ... Chryses, and given her as a prize to Agamemnon. He is compelled to restore ...
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  • from battle after he is dishonored by Agamemnon, the commander of the Achaean ... the Greeks, Nestor declared that had Agamemnon not angered Achilles, the ...
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  • claim of Wilhelm Dorpfeld, who argued that Agamemnon’s army destroyed Troy at the time of King Priam, as described in Homer’s Iliad. However, Blegen ...
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  • His translation of Aeschylus's Agamemnon was published in late 1936 ... * The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1936]) * Out of the Picture (1937) ...
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  • often particularly negative, as evidenced by Agamemnon's rhetorical question in the Illiad: "Why do we loathe Hades more than any god, if ...
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  • recalled to service. Given the 64-gun HMS Agamemnon in 1793, he soon started ... the ships blockading the French coast. Agamemnon, often described as Nelson ...
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  • due to injuries Odysseus persuades Agamemnon not to withdraw. Along ... the king of the dead. Odysseus also meets Agamemnon and his own mother. The ...
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  • * The Agamemnon of Aeschylus (1877) * La Saisiaz and The Two Poets of Croisic (1878) * Dramatic Idyls (1879) * Dramatic Idyls: Second Series (1880) ...
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  • Thomson sailed on board the cable-laying ship HMSS Agamemnon in August ... he was given unsatisfactory and the Agamemnon had to return home following ...
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  • Zeus or Athena), Aphrodite's famed girdle, Agamemnon's staff of office, Achilles' armor, Heracles' bronze clappers (used in his battle ...
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  • and the Spartans even had a shrine to Zeus Agamemnon. ===Oracles=== Although most oracle sites were usually dedicated to Apollo, the heroes, ...
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  • * Agamemnon * Thyestes * Oedipus * Hercules Oetaeus (“Hercules on Oeta”): Problematic authorship * Octavia : Problematic authorship ...
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  • was to be sacrificed by her father Agamemnon for success in the Trojan ... human sacrifice. In terms of literature, Agamemnon, the commander of the Achaeans ...
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  • murders of Electra's father, the Greek king Agamemnon, and mother, Clytemnestra, both involved in treacherous personal betrayals. The story is was ...
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  • since Helen was already married to Menelaus. Agamemnon, Helen's brother-in-law and king of Mycenae, took exception to Helen's abduction and ...
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  • on a single theme. The Oresteia consisting of Agamemnon, Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers), and Eumenides is the only surviving trilogy. The Persai ...
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  • the use of the ekkyklêma is after the murder of Agamemnon in the first play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, when the king's butchered body is wheeled ...
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