Article: A curse on the house of Pelops.(Mycenaen civilization)

Encyclopedia entry: Pelops
The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature;      700+ words ... ... Agamemnon on his return. Later, Agamemnon's son Orestēs ... and ELECTRA .) This legend ( Agamemnon's murder excepted) is not ... Mycenae passes naturally from Pelops to Atreus, Thyestes, and Agamemnon.

Encyclopedia entry: Agamemnon
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      381 words ...Agamemnon , in Greek mythology, leader of the ... Atreus and suffered the curse laid upon Pelops . Agamemnon married Clytemnestra, and their children ... possession of the captive princess Briseis. Agamemnon was forced to yield the girl to Achilles ...

Article: Agamemnon: Part VIII
Great Works of Literature;      700+ words ... ... unhallowed thing He thus had wrought, with horror's bitter cry Back-starting, spewing forth the fragments foul, On Pelops' house a deadly curse he spake - As darkly as I spurn this damned food, So perish all the race of Pleisthenes! Thus by that ...

Article: Plays of Aeschylus: Agamemnon (458 B.C.)
Monarch Notes;      700+ words ... ... Aeschylus Monarch Notes 01-01-1963 Agamemnon (458 B.C.) Background: This is ... half of the play, up to the entrance of Agamemnon, is devoted almost entirely to exposition ... is reached in the verbal dual between Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, the turning point ...

Article: 'Agamemnon' fails to stir emotions
Honolulu Star - Bulletin;  October 24, 2003 ;     700+ words ...[Sidebar] face=+2; 'Agamemnon'face=-2; Repeats at the University ... the dark and grim production of "Agamemnon" that continues this weekend at ... i Lipscomb is a strong second as Agamemnon's devious wife, Clytemnestra ...

Article: `AGAMEMNON': WEAK STORY, STRONG ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  June 20, 1998 ;     700+ words ...When ``Agamemnon'' was presented as a work-in-progress ... piece. But, as a finished work, ``Agamemnon'' lacks sufficient narrative structure ... of the mythic story of the Greek king Agamemnon, who sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia ...

Article: 'Agamemnon,' Up to Date And Almost Over the Top
The Washington Post;  September 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... Oedipus Plays," Arena Stage's "Agamemnon and His Daughters" consolidates several ... to the ritual of Greek drama. With "Agamemnon," director Molly Smith and adapter ... approach is less formal, more populist. "Agamemnon and His Daughters" is flat-out entertaining ...