Agamemnon

Aeschylus

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

  1. it prepared a feast with ruinous slaughter of the flocks; so that the house was defiled with blood, and whose who lived there could not control their anguish, and great was the carnage far and wide.
  2. A priest of ruin, by order of a god, it was reared in the house.
Chorus
  1. At first, I would say, there came to Ilium the spirit of unruffled calm,