Book XI · Episode 4 of 6
Agamemnon’s Warning
Agamemnon’s ghost recounts murder, warns
Scenes
- Agamemnon’s Fate — Aegisthus slays Agamemnon; wife conspires
- He weeps, too weak to embrace him
- Aegisthus invites him to a feast
- Slaughtered like an ox at the stall
- He recalls Cassandra’s dying cry
- She leaves without closing his eyes
- Warning About Wives — Agamemnon warns of wives, praises Penelope
- Zeus hates the house of Atreus
- He recalls Troy and Clytemnestra’s treachery
- Bring the ship home secretly, not openly
- He wonders which city shelters Orestes
- Odysseus admits he knows nothing of him