Agamemnon Quotes

• Rage - Goddess, sing the rage of Peleus' son Achilles, murderous, doomed, that cost the Achaeans countless losses, hurling down to the House of Death so many sturdy souls, great fighters' souls, but made their bodies carrion, feasts for the dogs and birds, and the will of Zeus was moving toward its end. Begin, Muse, when the two first broke and clashed, Agamemnon lord of men and brilliant Achilles.

  Homer

  Dog, Moving, Loss

  Homer (2002). “The Iliad”, Spark Notes

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• When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and there's Tristam Shandy, not to mention the "Agamemnon."

  James Joyce

  Thinking, Fiction, Too Much

  "Voices: A Memoir". Book by Frederic Prokosch. Chapter: "At Sylvia's", 1983.

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• Es propio de muy pocos hombres honrar sin envidia a un amigo que ha prosperado.

  Esquilo

  Amistad, Celos, Carácter

  "La Trilogía Orestéica". Obra de Esquilo, 458 a.C.

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• Sé cómo los hombres en el exilio se alimentan de sueños.

  Esquilo

  Dream, Men, Literature

  Aeschylus (2013). “Agamemnon in Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.137, BookCaps Study Guides

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• La historia de Ulises y Agamenón y Menelao, de Jesús, del Buen Caballero de Chaucer, vive en cada uno de nosotros.

  James Lee Burke

  Jesus, Knights, Stories

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

  Horace

  Hero, Night, Biographies

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• Rumours voiced by women come to nothing.

  Esquilo

  Rumores

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• Los viejos siempre son jóvenes para aprender con provecho.

  Esquilo

  Learning, Men, Age

  Aeschylus (2013). “Aeschylus II: The Oresteia”, p.40, University of Chicago Press

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• Wisdom comes through suffering.
  Trouble, with its memories of pain,
  Drips in our hearts as we try to sleep,
  So men against their will
  Learn to practice moderation.
  Favours come to us from gods.

  Esquilo

  Pain, Memories, Heart

  Aeschylus (2007). “The Oresteia”, p.13, RicherResourcesPublications

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• I asked Agamemnon plainly about Iphigenia; he wept. Not as one cries out of pain, but out of fear. Out of weakness.

  Christa Wolf

  Pain, Weakness, Cry

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• The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud.

  T. S. Eliot

  Fall, Heart, Singing

  "Sweeney Among the Nightingales" l. 35 (1919)

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• I played Thersites and I remember we were also doing some places out of town before starting our run at The Old Vic in London and we were at the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre in Guildford and I walked on stage and I've got an opening speech that begins: "Agamemnon, how if he had boils?" And I went on and said: "Agamemnon..." And a woman in the front row just went 'tut'. I thought: "I've only done four syllables, give us a chance!" I got one word out and the audience were already tutting. It was worse than any heckle I ever had doing comedy. So, I'll stick to gnomes.

  Matt Lucas

  Running, Giving, Theatre

  Fuente: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon.

  Heinrich Schliemann

  Caras

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• The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

  Aleister Crowley

  Integrity, Ambition, Principles

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• After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?

  Umberto Eco

  Passion, Fire, Light

  Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.404, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• El poeta Antágoras estaba hirviendo un congrio, y Antígono, viniendo detrás de él mientras removía su sartén, le dijo: "¿Crees, Antágoras, que Homero hirvió congrios cuando escribió las hazañas de Agamenón?". Antagoras replicó: "¿Piensas tú, oh rey, que Agamenón, cuando hizo tales hazañas, espiaba en su ejército para ver quién hervía congrios?

  Plutarch

  Reyes, Ejército, Pensamiento

  Plutarch (1871). "Plutarch's Morals", p.204

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• Herodotus is not more indisputably the father of history than is Sir Boyle Roche the father of Bulls. No doubt there were makers of bulls before his day, even as brave men lived before Agamemnon; but they are not remembered, and if their bulls have survived them they are credited to Sir Boyle by a posterity generously forgiving and forgetful of his famous indictment.

  Boyle Roche

  Father, Men, Brave

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• Many brave men lived before Agamemnon; but, all unwept and unknown, are lost in the distant night, since they are without a divine poet (to chronicle their deeds).

  Horace

  Night, Men, Bravery

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 82-83, Odes, Book IV, IX. 25, 1922.

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• Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him.
  [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti,
  Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.]

  Ovid

  Writing, Years, Authorship

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