Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.

  1. and deem her a slayer of men, as if she alone had destroyed many a Danaan life and had wrought anguish past all cure.
Chorus
  1. O Fiend who falls upon this house and Tantalus’ two descendants,[*](Agamemnon and Menelaus.)
  2. you who by the hands of women exert a rule matching their temper, a rule bitter to my soul! Perched over his body like a hateful raven, in hoarse notes she chants her song of triumph.