AGAMEMNON
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
| Agamemnon | King of Argos, and leader of all the Greeks in their war against Troy. |
| Ghost of Thyestes | Returned to earth to urge on his son to the vengeance which he was born to accomplish. |
| Aegisthus | Son of Thyestes by an incestuous union with his daughter; paramour of Clytemnestra. |
| Clytemnestra | Wife of Agamemnon, who has been plotting with Aegisthus against her husband, in his absence at Troy. |
| Chorus | Of Argive women. |
| Eurybates | Messenger of Agamemnon. |
| Cassandra | Daughter of Priam, captive of Agamemnon. |
| Electra | Daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra. |
| Strophius | King of Phocis. |
| Orestes | Son of Agamemnon (persona muta). |
| Pylades | Son of Strophius (persona muta). |
| Band | Of captive Trojan women. |
| The scene is laid partly within and partly without the palace of Agamemnon at Argos or Mycenae, on the day of the return of the king from his long absence at Troy, beginning in the period of darkness just preceding the dawn. | |
