Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ruled Argos while Agamemnon was at Troy, where the war went on for ten years. The Greeks captured and looted the city, divided the treasure and sailed for home. Agamemnon ...

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The official trailer for Christopher Nolan's The Odysseyhas arrived, offering a look at the star-studded cast and the legendary Homer characters they're portraying. Matt Damon's Odysseus naturally ...

Sophocles specialized in tense but humanistic dramas of passionate individuals trapped in impossible paradoxes. Euripides was a maverick and an iconoclast who loved upending his audience’s mythic ...

The Booker Prize-winning author of "Sacred Hunger" has been drawn to secret paths and hidden alternatives since childhood, stating that his fiction often begins with "the pressure of a secret, a story ...

Aeschylus would appreciate the irony. His ancient Greek tragedy “Agamemnon,” the story of a disastrous war in the Middle East, now plays at the Getty Villa, a palace of classical culture funded by an ...

A busy scene on Elm Street in downtown Dallas. Contributor Patrick B. Whalen says our hustle culture could learn a thing or two from Homer's ancient anti-hero Agamemnon. Staff / The Dallas Morning ...

The submarine was christened with bottle of beer from the local Ulverston Brewing Company A new Royal Navy submarine has been officially named after the ancient Greek king Agamemnon. The ceremony to ...