Looking at Agamemnon (Paperback)

Introduction - Agamemnon in Context (David Stuttard, Independent Scholar, UK) 1. Eating Children is Bad for You: The Offspring of the Past in Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Edith Hall, King's College London, UK) 2. Agamemnon at Aulis: hard choice or no choice? (Alan Sommerstein, University of Nottingham, UK) 3. The Homecoming of Agamemnon (Alex Garvie, University of Glasgow, UK) 4. Clytemnestra and Cassandra (Hanna Roisman, Colby College, USA) 5. Ritual in Agamemnon (Richard Seaford, University of Exeter, UK) 6. Let the Good Prevail (Sophie Mills, University of North Carolina at Asheville, USA) 7. Agency in Agamemnon (Robert Garland, Colgate University, UK) 8. Wealth and Injustice in Agamemnon (Michael Carroll, University of St Andrews, UK) 9. 'There is the sea - who can drain it dry?' Natural and Unnatural Cycles in Agamemnon (Rush Rehm, Stanford University, USA) 10. Similes and Other Likenesses in Aeschylus' Agamemnon (Anna Uhlig, University of California, Davis, USA) 11. Agamemnon, Warfare and its Aftermath (Isabelle Torrance, Aarhus University, Denmark) 12. Revenge for Murder Seen Through Modern Eyes: Recent Reception of Aeschylus' Oresteia (Betine van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham, UK) Aeschylus Agamemnon, translated by David Stuttard (David Stuttard, Independent Scholar, UK) Notes Bibliography Index