Agamemnon Quotes - Part 3
Important Quotes from Agamemnon and what Themes they link to - part 3 (fagles translation)
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- Agamemnon
- Justice/ vengeance
- 'There will come another to avenge us, born to kill his mother' 1302
- Fate
- 'the spirit lives within me, our savage ancient spirit of revenge. in return for Atreus' brutal feast' 1529-31
- Justice/ vengeance
- 'There will come another to avenge us, born to kill his mother' 1302
- Fate
- 'the spirit lives within me, our savage ancient spirit of revenge. in return for Atreus' brutal feast' 1529-31
- Responsibility
- 'I did it all. I don't deny it, no' 1400
- 'by this right hand a masterpiece of justice'
- Responsibility
- 'the spirit lives within me, our savage ancient spirit of revenge. in return for Atreus' brutal feast' 1529-31
- Fate
- 'didn't the law demand you banish him?' 1445
- 'by the sword you did your work and by the sword you die' 1556-7
- 'clots will mass for the young who were devoured' 1541
- Blood
- 'the murderous shower wounds me dies me black and I, I revel' 1411-2
- 'no bloodshed now' 1690
- Blood
- 'act for act wound for wound' 1554
- 'and I the weaver of justice plotted out the kill' 1635
- Responsibility
- 'I did it all. I don't deny it, no' 1400
- 'by this right hand a masterpiece of justice'
- Responsibility
- 'There will come another to avenge us, born to kill his mother' 1302
- Justice/ vengeance
- 'the spirit lives within me, our savage ancient spirit of revenge. in return for Atreus' brutal feast' 1529-31
- Fate
- 'didn't the law demand you banish him?' 1445
- 'by the sword you did your work and by the sword you die' 1556-7
- 'clots will mass for the young who were devoured' 1541
- Blood
- 'the murderous shower wounds me dies me black and I, I revel' 1411-2
- 'no bloodshed now' 1690
- Blood
- 'act for act wound for wound' 1554
- 'and I the weaver of justice plotted out the kill' 1635
- 'There will come another to avenge us, born to kill his mother' 1302
- Iphegenia
- 'he sacrificed his own child, our daughter, the agony I laboured into love' 1442-3
- Birth
- 'by the child's rights I brought to birth' 1459
- Birth
- 'he sacrificed his own child, our daughter, the agony I laboured into love' 1442-3
- The House
- 'the house breathes with murder' 1331
- 'my lord is home at last' 1423
- 'the great curse of the house' 1509
- Gender
- 'you try me like some desperate woman' 1425
- 'woman made him suffer, woman struck him down' 1480
- 'and that is what a woman has to say' 1695
- Justice/ vengeance
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