Agamemnon (page 667)

Chapter 17, The Return from Troy

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Homer, Odyssey 24.96-97

For on my return Zeus devised for me a woeful doom at the hands of Aegisthus and my accursed wife.  Greek Text

Homer, Odyssey 24.199-202

Not on this wise did the daughter of Tyndareus devise evil deeds [200] and slay her wedded husband, and hateful shall the song regarding her be among men, and evil repute doth she bring upon all womankind, even upon her that doeth uprightly.  Greek Text

Homer, Odyssey 24.21-22

and round about him others were gathered, the spirits of all those who were slain with him in the house of Aegisthus, and met their fate.  Greek Text

Nostoi Epitome – Poetae Epici Graeci 1, p. 95, ed. A. Bernabé. Leipzig 1987.

Simonides 216 PMGPoetae Melici Graeci, p. 116, ed. D. L. Page. Oxford 1962.

Literary sources edited by Elena Bianchelli, Retired Senior Lecturer of Classical Languages and Culture, Univ. of Georgia, February 2023

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