Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. What have you said? The meaning of your words has escaped me, so incredible they seemed.
Clytaemestra
  1. I said that Troy is in the hands of the Achaeans. Is my meaning clear?
Chorus
  1. Joy steals over me, and it challenges my tears.