As much as I wanted to love this book, it was only "meh". Don't get me wrong, it is a masterpiece, but it is a historical masterpiece, not a current one. This book has two main things going against it. One, it is not really even a book. It is a play, so reading this is similar to reading a script, ...
Agamemnon is one of the Oresteian trilogy that followed the story of Agamemnon's homecoming from the Trojan Wars and the subsequent tragedy that lead from his unfaithful wife, Clytemnestra. This play of Agamemnon concentrates on Clytemnestra, the comparison with Odysseus's wife, Penelope and the det...
[These notes were made in 1981. I read it in the 1888 edition, where there was no attribution to an author:]. Source - Robarts. Finished June 22/81. A mystery indeed. Largely poetic flights of fancy, much of it highly influenced by The Ancient Mariner. About a number of people dying but not dyin...