Book III · Episode 3 of 5
Agamemnon’s Murder
Nestor recounts Agamemnon’s murder
Scenes
- A Warning on Fate — Nestor probes suitors, Athena warns
- An oracle may have turned people hostile
- Nestor prays Athena favors him like Odysseus
- Telemachus doubts he could be so lucky
- She’d rather struggle home than die suddenly
- Even gods can’t spare death’s fated hour
- The Full Tale of Murder — Nestor tells of Aegisthus, Menelaus’s voyage
- Telemachus asks how Aegisthus dared kill
- Aegisthus wooed Clytemnestra with flattery
- He marooned the bard guarding her
- Orestes returns from Athens, kills him
- Menelaus arrives home richly laden