{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0085.tlg005.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.local001","title":"Ἀγαμέμνων","titleGreek":"Ἀγαμέμνων","alternateTitles":["Agamemnon","Ἀγαμέμνων"],"author":"Aeschylus","authorityName":"AESCHYLUS Trag.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0085-aeschylus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0085-aeschylus/","editors":["Arthur Sidgwick"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Aeschyli Tragoediae : cum fabularum deperditarum fragmentis, poetae vita et operum catalogo","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1902","volume":null,"series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Tufts University"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Gregory Crane"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://hdl.handle.net/2027/njp.32101064224940","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Aeschylus. Ἀγαμέμνων. ed. Arthur Sidgwick. Aeschyli Tragoediae : cum fabularum deperditarum fragmentis, poetae vita et operum catalogo, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1902. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0085.tlg005.local001","excerpt":"Ἀγαμέμνων εἰς Ἴλιον ἀπιὼν τῇ Κλυταιμήστρᾳ, εἰ πορθήσοι τὸ Ἴλιον, ὑπέσχετοαργυμεντυμ] 2 ὑπέσχετο αδδ. φλ τῆς αὐτῆς ἡμέρας σημαίνειν διὰ τοῦ πυρσοῦ. ὅθεν σκοπὸν ἐκάθισεν ἐπὶ μισθῷ Κλυταιμήστρα, ἵνα τηροίη τὸν πυρσόν. καὶ ὁ μὲν ἰδὼν ἀπήγγειλεν, αὐτὴ δὲ τῶν πρεσβυτῶν ὄχλον μεταπέμπεται, περὶ τοῦ πυρσοῦ ἐροῦσα: ἐξ ὧν καὶ ὁ χορὸς συνίσταται: οἵτινες ἀκούσαντες παιανίζουσιν. μετ᾽ οὐ πολὺ δὲ καὶ Ταλθύβιος παραγίνεται καὶ τὰ κατὰ τὸν πλοῦν διηγεῖται. Ἀγαμέμνων δ᾽ ἐπὶ ἀπήνης ἔρχεται: εἵπετο δ᾽ αὐτῷ ἑτέρα ἀπήνη, ἔνθα ἦν τὰ λάφυρα καὶ ἡ Κασάνδρα. αὐτὸς μὲν οὖν προεισέρχεται εἰς τὸν οἶκον σὺν τῇ Κλυταιμήστρᾳ, Κασάνδρα δὲ προμαντεύεται, πρὶν εἰς τὰ βασίλεια εἰσελθεῖν, τὸν ἑαντῆς καὶ τοῦ Ἀγαμέμνονος θάνατον, καὶ τὴν ἐξ Ὀρέστου μητροκτονίαν, καὶ εἰσπηδᾷ ὡς θανουμένη, ῥίψασα τὰ στέμματα. τοῦτο δὲ τὸ μέρος τοῦ δράματος θαυμάζεται ὡς ἔκπληξιν ἔχον καὶ οἶκτον ἱκανόν. ἰδίως δὲ Αἰσχύλος τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα ἐπὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Ἀγαμέμνονος ὑπόθεσις","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/1/"},{"label":"Τὰ τοῦ δράματος πρόσωπα:","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/2/"},{"label":"Episode 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/3-episode-3/"},{"label":"Choral 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/4-choral-4/"},{"label":"Episode 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/5-episode-5/"},{"label":"Choral 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/6-choral-6/"},{"label":"Episode 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/7-episode-7/"},{"label":"Choral 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/8-choral-8/"},{"label":"Episode 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/9-episode-9/"},{"label":"Choral 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/10-choral-10/"},{"label":"Episode 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/11-episode-11/"},{"label":"Choral 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/12-choral-12/"},{"label":"Episode 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/13-episode-13/"},{"label":"Choral 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/14-choral-14/"},{"label":"Episode 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/15-episode-15/"},{"label":"Choral 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/16-choral-16/"},{"label":"Episode 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/17-episode-17/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0085.tlg005.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0085/tlg005/local001.json.gz"}}