Zeus, author of all, worker of all! For what is brought to pass for mortal men save by will of Zeus? What herein is not wrought of god?

παναιτίου πανεργέτα:
τί γὰρ βροτοῖς ἄνευ Διὸς τελεῖται;

Aeschylus

Agamemnon

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Chorus

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Aeschylus

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Agamemnon

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Greek tragedy Tragedy (play)

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Greek

Time

458 BC 450s BC 5th century BC

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Classical antiquity

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Playwright Writer

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Greece Europe Ancient Greece

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Aeschylus. Agamemnon. 458 BCE, The Dionysia, Athens, Greece.

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Aeschylus. "Agamemnon." The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides, edited and translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics, 1984.

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