Agamemnon sacrifices his eldest daughter, Iphigenia, to the gods for victory in the Trojan War.

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Clytemnestra avenges her wronged daughter by murdering Agamemnon upon his return from Troy.

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Agamemnon was hacked to death with an axe, wielded by his wife, Klytaemnestra.

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Had those two main roles, particularly, Agamemnon, been tougher and stronger, it would have been a really good play.

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Agamemnon (Brian Cox), the chief of the Greek expedition, uses the loss of Helen to the Trojans as an excuse to conquer the eastern Aegean.

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As the opera opens, Elektra's father, King Agamemnon, is already dead, and the score begins with a powerful, four note theme to which Elektra later sings his name.

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" He found solace in Aeschylus, memorizing the lines from the Agamemnon that he would use when Martin Luther King Jr. was killed: "He who learns must suffer.

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More creditably, there is much excellent acting, particularly from Greg Hicks, both as a brooding, Brutus-like Agamemnon, and as a rather sinister, sensuous Priam, who towers over everyone on stilts.

ECONOMIST: Theatre

In a long soliloquy, she remembers Agamemnon.

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Some carpeting pros point to the femme fatale Clytemnestra of Greek legend as the first to see the value in colored flooring: She put down a darkly hued welcome mat for her husband, Agamemnon, to honor his return, whereupon he was murdered.

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Agamemnon's tomb is still unidentified.

ECONOMIST: Ancient Greece