Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. This house stinks of blood-dripping slaughter.
Chorus
  1. And what of that? It is just the savor of victims at the hearth.
Cassandra
  1. It is like a breath from a charnel-house.