The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the Furies
Aeschylus Translator
The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the Furies
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The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the Furies
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INTRODUCTORY NOTE Of the life of Aeschylus, the first of the three great masters of Greek tragedy, only a very meager outline has come down to us. He was born at Eleusis, near Athens, B. C. 525, the son of Euphorion. Before he was twenty-five he began to compete for the tragic prize, but did not win a victory for twelve years. He spent two periods of years in Sicily, where he died in 456, killed, it is said, by a tortoise which an eagle dropped on his head. Though a professional writer,
The House of Atreus; Being the Agamemnon, the Libation bearers, and the Furies
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