Returning victorious from Troy, the king is murdered in his bath by the wife who never forgave their daughter's sacrifice.
Books that mention Agamemnon (6)
Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: “It comes in the chorus of the _Agamemnon_.”
This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald: “the divine irony of the “Agamemnon” I find the only answer to this bitter age”
The Secret History by Donna Tartt: “Camilla recites Klytemnestra's speech in Greek: "Thus he died, and all the life struggled out of him ..."; Julian calls it "that glorious speech of Klytemnestra's in the Agamemnon."”
The Common Reader: Second Series by Virginia Woolf: “...it will read us perhaps Lear and then perhaps the Agamemnon in order to bring out that common quality.”
Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson: “Hamilton's translations of Aeschylus's Agamemnon, the perhaps-Aeschylean Prometheus Bound, and Euripides' Trojan Women”
Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes: “We're in the middle of that long crabbed chorus in the Agamemnon.”