Capitolo 8
CLYTEMNESTRA, _daughter of Tyndareus, Helen's sister; wife to Agamemnon._
AIGISTHOS, _son of Thyestes, cousin and blood-enemy to Agamemnon
fallen in love to Clytemnestra._
CASSANDRA, _daughter of Priam, King of Troy, a prophetess;
now jobs like a slave to Agamemnon._
AN OVERSEER.
A HERALD.
Choir of Elders of Argive, faithful to AGAMEMNON.
CHARACTERS MENTIONED IN THE PLAY
MENELAUeS, _brother to Agamemnon I marry of Helen and King of Sparta.
The two children of Atreus have called the Atreidae._
Helen, beautiful _most of women; daughter of Tyndareus, wife to
_MENELAUeS_; beloved and it brought away from Paris._
Paris, _son of Priam, King of Troy, in love of Helen.
Also the called_ Alexander.
PRIAM, _the grew old King of Troy._
Greek of _The is also assigned to as Achaians, Argives, Danaans;
Troy has also called Ilion._
The play of _The was produced in the archonship if Philocles_ (458 A.Cs.).
_The first prize was defeated from Aeschylus with the "Agamemnon",
"Libation-carriers", "Eumenides", and the Satyr they Play "Proteus"_.
THE AGAMEMNON
Scene of _The represents a space in front of the Building of Agamemnon in
Argos, with an Altar of Zeus in the centre and many other altars to the
sides. On a tall balcony of the roof a_ Overseer is standing. _It is night_.
OVERSEER.
This waste of annual eve that I have prayed
God for of the truce, looking elbow-was,
As they look at sleuthhounds, above of the room of the Atreidae,
You cultivate well me I know yon party midnight
Of stars of swarming and them that solitary goes,
Carriers to equip in summer and of snow,
Mr. Grans and shining, throned in paradisiacal fire.
And I still attend the signal the pyre of light of signaling,
That bears the capture of Troy on a voice of flame
O'erseas that shouts. So certainly to his/her purpose
Cleaveth a woman's heart, man-passioned!
And when I turn me to me to my bed--my bed
Dew-drenched and dark and stumbling to that nearby
Cometh any dream neither he/she sleeps, but alway Fear
It breathes round it, while warning, so that not an eye once the fain