Agamemnon Characters

Seeing as the play is named after Agamemnon and all, you'd probably expect us to know a lot about his character, right? Actually, this isn't really true. Even though Agamemnon is the play's "tragic...

Even though Agamemnon gets a shout-out in the play's title, Clytemnestra may well be its most interesting character. By interesting, we don't mean likable – after all, technically speaking, s...

Cassandra is a princess of Troy. We aren't really told much about her back-story in Aeschylus's Agamemnon, but other ancient sources report that she was captured by the Greek warrior Ajax, who prie...