# The Agamemnon Of Aeschylus Translated Into English Rhyming Vers

Author: Unknown

Genre: Public Domain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: Local public-domain TXT source

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## Summary

The sense of difficulty, and indeed of awe, with which a scholar approaches the task of translating the _Agamemnon_ depends directly on its greatness as poetry. It is in part a matter of diction. The language of Aeschylus is an extraordinary thing, the syntax stiff and simple, the vocabulary obscure, unexpected, and steeped in splendour. Its peculiarities cannot be disregarded, or the translation will be false in character. Yet not Milton himself could produce in English the same great music, and a translator who should strive ambitiously to represent the complex effect of the original would clog his own powers of expression and strain his instrument to breaking. But, apart from the dicti...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-agamemnon-of-aeschylus-translated-into-english-rhyming-vers-880caec0/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-agamemnon-of-aeschylus-translated-into-english-rhyming-vers-880caec0/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-agamemnon-of-aeschylus-translated-into-english-rhyming-vers-880caec0/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-agamemnon-of-aeschylus-translated-into-english-rhyming-vers-880caec0/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-agamemnon-of-aeschylus-translated-into-english-rhyming-vers-880caec0/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-agamemnon-of-aeschylus-translated-into-english-rhyming-vers-880caec0/chapters/6/index.md)