Most characters in this play were despicable. Murderers, adulterers, fools, tyrants, sadists. I just can't feel compassion for any of them. Really hard to think about nuances of justice when i just want them all to die. Perhaps that's the point of the play. It is so emotionally pleasing to imagine justice based on revenge but it might not be a good system in the long run. Hm, did i learn something here? ( )

I found Lattimore's translation difficult to read and ended up supplementing it with the YouTube video of the (British) National Theater production of Tony Harrison's translation, which I found easier to understand. Even that was difficult in places but perhaps because I was busy trying to match up the video with the text...

So for this particular edition I give 3 stars - for the play itself, I give 4 stars. This is the epitome of what I think of when I hear the term "Greek tragedy" - the inescapable fate, the chorus, the justice and yet the pity.
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Enjoyed Aeschylus' in-depth revelation of Agamemnon's fate following the war. ( )

When re-reading this, I could not stop comparing Agamemnon with the Game of Thrones! I had not realised how much J R R Martin had taken from the Oresteia. Although I must say.... as much as I love him, he doesn't hold a candle to Aeschylus. I wonder if the series will follow the same path as the Oresteia, and end with the birth of democracy? There were some hints it could happen in the last season, in conversations between Tyrion and Daenerys.

Clytemnestra is one of the greatest villains ever in literature. ( )

This is the more affordable of the two significant 20th Century editions of the Agamemnon, the other one being Fraenkel's magisterial three-volume edition (unfortunately priced only for the library or the specialist). Denniston and Page provide an edition with good apparatus, and engage intelligently with previous critics, providing a usable and helpful presentation of the text. ( )