THE HOUSE OF ATREUS
by Aeschylus
BEING
THE AGAMEMNON, THE LIBATION-BEARERS AND THE FURIES
TRANSLATED BY E.D.A. MORSHEAD
Contents
| [INTRODUCTORY NOTE] |
| [AGAMEMNON] |
| [THE LIBATION-BEARERS] |
| [THE FURIES] |
INTRODUCTORY NOTE
Of the life of Aeschylus, the first of the three great masters of Greek tragedy, only a very meager outline has come down to us. He was born at Eleusis, near Athens, B. C. 525, the son of Euphorion. Before he was twenty-five he began to compete for the tragic prize, but did not win a victory for twelve years. He spent two periods of years in Sicily, where he died in 456, killed, it is said, by a tortoise which an eagle dropped on his head. Though a professional writer, he did his share of fighting for his country, and is reported to have taken part in the battles of Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea.