The Agamemnon of Aeschylus: Translated into English Rhyming Verse with Explanatory Notes
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The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the _Agamemnon_ depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. Its peculiarities cannot be disregarded, or the translation will be false in cha…
Details
- AuthorAeschylus
- SourceProject Gutenberg #14417
- Length21,455 words · 1h 26m of reading
- Chapters8
- DictionaryIncluded
- CopyrightPublic domain in the United States
- Source checked2026-08-28
Contents
8 chapters
Recovered from the original source text, so you can open the book at any of them.
- 01TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH RHYMING VERSE
- 02PREFACE
- 03CHARACTERS IN THE PLAY
- 04CHARACTERS MENTIONED IN THE PLAY
- 05PRIAM, _the aged King of Troy._
- 06THE AGAMEMNON
- 07CHORUS. (_Some Elders_.)
- 08NOTES TO THE AGAMEMNON
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