Aeschylus (525/4-456/5 B.C.E.) was the first of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, a forerunner of Sophocles and Euripides. His early tragedies were largely choral pageants with minimal plots. In Agamemnon, choral songs still predominate, but Aeschylus infuses them with such dramatic feeling that the spectator or reader is constantly spellbound.
Translator David Mulroy brings this ancient tragedy to life for modern readers and audiences. Using end rhyme and strict metrics, he combines the buoyant lyricism of the Greek text with a faithful rendering of its meaning in lucid English.
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1/ Agamemnon by Aeschylus The father of Tragedy as an art form The father of the “trilogy” format which continues to thrive today Never mentioned his writing career on his epitaph Only talked about his war heroics That’s Aeschylus 2 memorable quotes from a timeless play: https://t.co/HpeGOkU3Ny