The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Illustrated)

by Aeschylus

‘Pain comes from the darkness,’ in the words of Randall Jarrell, ‘and we call it wisdom. It is pain.’

My heart is steel, well you know. Praise me, blame me as you choose. It’s all one. Here is Agamemnon, my husband made a corpse by this right hand—a masterpiece of Justice. Done is done.

Our lives are pain, what part not come from god?

Her head is ripe for lopping on the block. She’s next, and justice wields the axe.