This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... aid or rush within to the rescue? The doors of the palace are suddenly thrown open as the elders are on the point of entering.1 They see the body of Agamemnon lying beside that of Cassandra, and Clytemnestra looking upon her bloody work. She steps forward and calmly exults in what she has done. This is the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... aid or rush within to the rescue? The doors of the palace are suddenly thrown open as the elders are on the point of entering.1 They see the body of Agamemnon lying beside that of Cassandra, and Clytemnestra looking upon her bloody work. She steps forward and calmly exults in what she has done. This is the sum and issue of the strife Wherein long since he gave my love defeat, Of me deep-pondered and at length fulfilled. All is avowed, and, as I smote, I stand With foot set firm upon a finished thing! Yea, thus I wrought--even I--ere he could move A foot to fly, an arm to ward his doom! Even as the trammel hems the scaly shoal, I trapped him with inextricable toils, The ill abundance of a baffling robe; Then smote him, once, again--and at each wound He cried aloud, then as in death relaxed Each limb, and sank to earth; and as he lay, Once more I smote him, with the third last blow, Sacred to Hades, Saviour of the Dead. Answering the stern reproaches of the chorus, she justifies her deed, referring to the sacrifice of Iphige-neia, whom he slew, as he would a sheep, to charm the winds of Thrace; and to his unfaithfulness in wedlock, for he brought home Cassandra, "who now lies as erst she lay, close to his side." She trusts to Egisthus to defend her cause. The chorus raise a lament over the king, which Clytemnestra interrupts, now to defend her deed, now to exult in it. But the chorus chant the solemn warning: 'It was an unwritten law of the Greek drama that no murder or violent death should be represented in view of the spectators. By a device such as is here employed the chorus is supposed to see and describe the horrible sight, which, in its details, is not visible to the others. The tragic effect is produced by their language alone, assisted by...
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