Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer by Andrew Porter

Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer

Hellenic Studies

Andrew Porter

264 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary poetry dark tense slow-paced
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Agamemnon led a ten-year-long struggle at Troy only to return home and die a pathetic death at his wife's hands. Yet while Agamemnon's story exerts an outsize influence--rivalled by few epic personalities--on the poetic narratives of the Iliad and...

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