The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus…

In one particular chapter in Ulysses, James Joyce imitates every major writing style that's been used by English and American writers over the last…

— Frederick Lenz

“But the Danaan princes and Agamemnon’s battalions, soon as they saw the man and his arms flashing amid the glom, trembled with mighty fear;…

— Virgil

Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet…

— Horace

The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their…

— T. S. Eliot

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but…

— Aleister Crowley

Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of…

— Homer

“AGAMEMNON: Oh immovable law of heaven! Oh my anguish, my relentless fate! CLYTEMNESTRA: Yours? Mine. Hers. No relenting for any of us.”

— Euripides

I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon,

— Heinrich Schliemann

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us…

— Umberto Eco

Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.

— Horace

Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of…

— Boyle Roche

“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young woman, someone’s…

— Daniel Mendelsohn

When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And…

— James Joyce

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

— Aeschylus

“There was precious little nobility in the features of the High King's fleshy face. Like his body, his face was broad and heavy, with…

— Ben Bova