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 ...

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 ...

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 ...