"Agamemnon" in English Prose (Annotated)

Originally published in 1829 as a portion of the larger “Tragedies of Aeschylus Complete,” this Kindle edition provides an English prose translation, by British theologian Charles Blomfield (1786-1857), of Aeschylus’s classic Greek tragedy “Agamemnon.”

Includes supplemental material:

• About Aeschylus in Brief
• About Greek Hero Agamemnon in Brief

Sample passage:
CLYTEMNESTRA: I do not deem that his death was ignominious: for did not he cause a treacherous calamity to his house? But having done undeserved wrong to my offspring sprung from his embrace, the much-lamented Iphigenia, and having met with a deserved return, let him not proudly boast in Hades, since by the death of the murderous sword he hath atoned for the injuries which he inflicted.

CHORUS: O earth! earth! would that thou hadst entombed me, before that I had seen him laid in the lowly bed of the silver-encircled bath! Who will bury him—who bewail him? Will you dare, after having slain your husband, to lament his death, and impiously bestow this thankless favour in atonement of your atrocious deeds?

About the author:
Aeschylus (c. 525–456 B.C.) was a Greek dramatist. He is best known for his trilogy the “Oresteia” (458 B.C.), consisting of the tragedies “Agamemnon,” “Choephoroe,” and “Eumenides.”