Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. he is to bring to pass retribution of other deaths[*](If Agamemnon is now to pay the price for his father’s killing of Thyestes’ children, and by his own death is to atone for his slaying of Iphigenia, and is thus to bring about requital consisting in yet other deaths (Clytaemestra and Aegisthus).), what mortal man, on hearing this, can boast that he was born with scatheless destiny? A shriek is heard from within