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Updated: July 1, 2025
When, in the Agamemnon of AESCHYLUS, Clytemnes'tra declares that Troy has fallen, and the chorus, half incredulous, demands what messenger had brought the intelligence, she replies: "A gleam a gleam from Ida's height By the fire-god sent, it came; From watch to watch it leaped, that light; As a rider rode the flame!
"In the Agamemnon," says VON SCHLEGEL, "it was the intention of AEschylus to exhibit to us a sudden fall from the highest pinnacle of prosperity and renown into the abyss of ruin. Among the fine passages of this play, the death of Agamemnon, at the hand of Clytemnes'tra, is a scene that the poet paints with terrible effect. E. C. Stedman's version of the death of Agamemnon is an excellent one.
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