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Aeschylus: AgamemnonCompanions to Greek and Roman Tragedy Aeschylus' Agamemnon, opening play of the Oresteia trilogy, with its brilliant theatrical effects, is a masterpiece. The revenge plot a murder is simple, the language and imagery complex and thrilling. The play features two extraordinary women: the powerful, dissembling queen Clytemnestra and the frenzied prophetess Cassandra. It als features another original Aeschylean creation, the omnipresent helpless chorus,

lively and thorough approach to Greek as it is spoken and written today

‘An exciting

extensive annotation gives assistance with linguistic difficulties

Living at a time of radical social change at the end of the Roman Republic

Julius Caesar's harrowing triumph in Gaul or the eloquent oratory of Cicero

So Livy characterizes Papirius Cursor

in a palace haunted by child-ghosts

που πέρασε από την κατάσταση της απόλυτης ευημερίας

mathematical realm

The Introduction also considers Plato's style and offers an account of the reception of the dialogue from its composition to the twentieth century

and about his many friends

Set against the spectacular mountains and lakes of northern Greece