"Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are……" — Horace

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• The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
• I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out… — Christa Wolf
• I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon, — Heinrich Schliemann
• When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not… — James Joyce
• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance… — Aleister Crowley
• The story of Ulysses and Agamemnon and Menelaus, of Jesus, of the Good Knight of Chaucer, lives in every one… — James Lee Burke
• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down… — Homer
• After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the… — Umberto Eco
• SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing… — Ambrose Bierce
• To the semidivine hero, the mere fact of ruling over more men does not constitute greatness, and as for glory… — Cedric H Whitman

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