Category: Book Agamemnon

Agamemnon is a play written by Aeschylus, based on the times of the Trojan War against the Greeks. The setting opens up with the watchman who is given the job of watching the roof of the palace for Agamemnon’s return, explaining how dull and unhappening his life is. Because Agamemnon had been gone while fighting…

The Sacrifice of Learning Through Suffering Much can be expressed about the age old saying that the punishment must fit the crime, that if actions are committed, there must be an equal response, and that in all things there must—and will be—recompense. In the “Agamemnon” by Aeschylus, and later in the “Iliad” and the “Odyssey”…