The welcome committee was ready: Agamemnon and Cassandra were slaughtered by his wife, Clytemnestra, and her lover. In Emily Wilson’s brilliant 2018 translation of “The Odyssey,” Agamemnon ...
When Clytemnestra murders her husband, Agamemnon, on his return from Troy, she has three comprehensible motives. Agamemnon has sacrificed their daughter; he has brought home a mistress ...
Brie Larson takes the lead as Elektra, the hot-headed, vengeful daughter of Clytemnestra and the murdered Agamemnon, who stalks around the stage in modern clothing with a microphone, separating ...
George Irving’s assured Agamemnon returns to Argos as a hero on his chariot with Cassandra — a slave girl whom he hands over to his humiliated but unfaithful wife Clytemnestra as booty — thus ...