Aeschylus would appreciate the irony. His ancient Greek tragedy “Agamemnon,” the story of a disastrous war in the Middle East, now plays at the Getty Villa, a palace of classical culture funde ...

Undiluted Greek tragedy is not to every taste ... Like most Greek tragedies, this one focuses on a dysfunctional family. Agamemnon, the Greek commander in chief in the Trojan War, sacrifices ...

“Agamemnon” is about another king ... As the scholar George Steiner writes, one of the bitter lessons of Greek tragedy is that “the forces which shape or destroy our lives lie outside ...

Confronted by this choice, Agamemnon cries out (in Robert Fagles’ translation): Here is the heart of Greek tragedy: a collision between equally powerful and equally righteous imperatives.

a middle-aged woman with iron gray hair in a bun. . . .” There`s a Greek chorus of townspeople, a southern virgin called Cassie (Cassandra) whom Augie Mencken (Agamemnon) had hoped to marry and ...

What is merely talked about in “Agamemnon,” the first play in the ... and he must have known that going back to what set off this tragedy is going to weight things in the mother’s favor.

By David Belcher Staging “The Oresteia,” Aeschylus’s epic Greek tragedy, is a daunting task ... In the Aeschylus play, first staged in 458 B.C., Agamemnon, the king of Mycenae, returns ...

Seeking analogies in literature, I think of two women from Greek mythology ... another Greek tragedy, Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis. In that play, the heroine’s father, Agamemnon, decides ...

Agamemnon learns that he has somehow offended ... the 1980s Lee Breuer layering of African American gospel music atop Greek tragedy on Broadway and across the globe, including at the Parthenon ...

Aeschylus would appreciate the irony. His ancient Greek tragedy “Agamemnon,” the story of a disastrous war in the Middle East, now plays at the Getty Villa, a palace of classical culture funde ...