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Agamemnon
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  • I'm wearing a wide gold mask, all noble and bearded, like the so-called Mask of Agamemnon found at Mycenae.†  (source)
  • Aeschylus, Agamemnon  (source)
  • The Agamemnon of Aeschylus is based on this legend.†  (source)
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  • Agamemnon has taken his war prize.†  (source)
  • mad he wouldn't have had to nail himself up and die and if he hadn't died he wouldn't have left her an orphan and a pauper and so situated, left susceptible to a situation where she could receive this mortal affront and right about the brother-in-law because if he hadn't been a demon his children wouldn't have needed protection from him and she wouldn't have had to go out there and be betrayed by the old meat and find instead of a widowed Agamemnon to her Cassandra an ancient stiff-jointed Pyramus to her eager though untried Thisbe who could approach her in this unbidden April's compounded demonry and suggest that they breed together for test and sample and if it was a boy they would marry;†  (source)
  • It comes in the chorus of the Agamemnon.†  (source)
  • Elizabeth gave a piercing shriek, and the black of Agamemnon's face changed to a muddy white.†  (source)
  • Amory, lately I reread Aeschylus and there in the divine irony of the "Agamemnon" I find the only answer to this bitter age—all the world tumbled about our ears, and the closest parallel ages back in that hopeless resignation.†  (source)
  • Agamemnon, king of the heroes, flings to earth Elatos, born in the rocky city which is laved by the sounding river Satnois.†  (source)
  • As one of a boarding-party from the Agamemnon he had received a cut slantwise along one temple and cheek, leaving a long scar like a streak of dawn's light falling athwart the dark visage.†  (source)
  • Agamemnon could not be got to show in his classical tunic, but stood in the background with Aegisthus and others of the performers of the little play.†  (source)
  • Gringoire hid his face between his two hands, not being so fortunate as to have a mantle with which to veil his head, like Agamemnon of Timantis.†  (source)
  • Or she'll observe, just after I've told her a story from the Iliad: 'You know, when you come to think of it, Agamemnon and that lot were nothing but a bunch of ruffians from the Gorbals, only with fancy names!'†  (source)
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