Agamemnon · c. AD 50
Persons of the Play
Translated by Frank Justus Miller (1907)
Persons of the Play
AGAMEMNON, King of Argos, and leader of all the Greeks in their war against Troy
GHOST OF THYESTES, returned to earth to urge on his son to the vengeance which he was born to accomplish
AEGISTHUS, son of Thyestes by an incestuous union with his daughter; paramour of Clytemnestra
CLYTEMNESTRA, wife of Agamemnon, who has been plotting with Aegisthus against her husband, in his absence at Troy
CHORUS of Argive women
EURYBATES, messenger of Agamemnon
CASSANDRA, daughter of Priam, captive of Agamemnon
ELECTRA, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra
STROPHIUS, king of Phocis
ORESTES, son of Agamemnon (mute)
PYLADES, son of Strophius (mute)
BAND of captive Trojan women
The scene is laid partly within and partly without the palace of Agamemnon at Argos or Mycenae, on the day of the return of the king from his long absence at Troy, beginning in the period of darkness just preceding the dawn.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Agamemnon, Persons of the Play. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/work/agamemnon-seneca-miller/0/.
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Agamemnon, Persons of the Play. Translated by Frank Justus Miller. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/work/agamemnon-seneca-miller/0/.