The Catalogue of Women was a rich epic treatment of famous and heroic women of antiquity. Attributed to Hesiod, only fragments have come d...

The  Agamemnon  opens with the watchman's anticipation. He's on the look-out for the  sumbolon,  a prearranged fiery relay carrying...

. . . until times within living memory the exponents of Aeschylus were necessarily and properly engrossed by the preliminary difficulties ...

Leda and the Swan - Francesco Melzi, from a lost work of Leonardo da Vinci The Greek fascination with symmetrical pairs is latent in...

The Killing of Agamemnon Calyx krater, Dokimasia Painter , 460 BC: Here Agamemnon, diminished in stature and dripping wet, is trap...

Theater complex at Side , built in second century A.D. seating 15,000-20,000

A few basic resources for Agamemnon . For the text in Greek with two English translations, one by Robert Browning, see the Agamemnon on t...

As we'll soon be beginning the Oresteia, this post from the splendid  Sententiae Antiquae  suggests some of the richness of Aeschylus...