(Fortunately, it wasn’t a Greek tragedy; no one was hurt.) This blazing debut novel retells the story of Clytemnestra, wife ...

Agamemnon, and the unjust death he faced at the hands of her mother and Aegisthus. Killing a family member is considered to be one of the worst sins in Greek tragedy, hence the particular anger at ...

Smyth '78 of the Greek Department, who is one of the three professors in charge of the Greek Play, gave a lecture on "The Agamemnon of ... constructing the modern tragedy, said Professor Smyth ...

relationship between divine and civic law — as it is in much Greek tragedy. In the first play the murder of his daughter Iphigenia by King Agamemnon ordered by Zeus ensures victory in the war against ...