Agamemnon

Aeschylus

Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.

  1. Drove forth to exile from both town and household:
  2. And, coming back, to the hearth turned, a suppliant,
  3. Wretched Thuestes found the fate assured him
  4. — Not to die, bloodying his paternal threshold
  5. Just there: but host-wise this man’s impious father
  6. Atreus, soul-keenly more than kindly, — seeming
  7. To joyous hold a flesh-day, — to my father
  8. Served up a meal, the flesh of his own children.