{"product_id":"agamemnon-9780299306342","title":"Agamemnon","description":"Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War. He has brought with him the seer Cassandra as his war-prize and concubine. Awaiting him is his vengeful wife Clytemnestra, who is angry at Agamemnon's sacrifice of their daughter Iphigeneia to the gods, jealous of Cassandra, and guilty of taking a lover herself. The events that unfold catch everyone in a bloody net, including their absent son Orestes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAeschylus (525\/4-456\/5 B.C.E.) was the first of the three great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece, a forerunner of Sophocles and Euripides. His early tragedies were largely choral pageants with minimal plots. In \u003ci\u003eAgamemnon\u003c\/i\u003e, choral songs still predominate, but Aeschylus infuses them with such dramatic feeling that the spectator or reader is constantly spellbound. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslator David Mulroy brings this ancient tragedy to life for modern readers and audiences. Using end rhyme and strict metrics, he combines the buoyant lyricism of the Greek text with a faithful rendering of its meaning in lucid English.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Mulroy is a professor emeritus of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. His translations of \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Poetry of Catullus\u003c\/i\u003e and of Sophocles' Theban trilogy--\u003ci\u003eOedipus Rex, Antigone, and Oedipus at Colonus\u003c\/i\u003e--are all published by the University of Wisconsin Press.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491651129618,"sku":"9780299306342","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c2a4836b-7769-4e96-8822-c7f16ce9f9af.jpg?v=1730546290","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/agamemnon-9780299306342","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}