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Agamemnon. N. Wecklein. . 2026-09-06.

Current edition Experimental

Wecklein’s commentary on Agamemnon (1888; German; OCR draft) (German) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 30–140; Iowa and Harvard OCR collated conservatively. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.)

Provisional text from uncorrected OCR; expect errors.

Editions (8)
Ἀγαμέμνων First1KGreek (Aeschyli Tragoediae. Sidgwick, Arthur, editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1902.) — 1577-1673 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων Perseus (Aeschylus, Volume 2. Smyth, Herbert Weir, editor. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1926.) — 1577-1673 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Guilielmus Dindorfius, 1882.) — 1577 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Gottfried Hermann, 1852.) — 1577 focus
ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ (OCR draft) Experimental (ΑΓΑΜΕΜΝΩΝ. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1577 focus
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. N. Wecklein, 1885.) — 1577 focus
ὦ φέγγος εὔφρον ἡμέρας δικηφόρου,
φαίην ἂν ἤδη νῦν βροτῶν τιμαόρους
θεοὺς ἄνωθεν γῆς ἐποπτεύειν ἄγη,
ἰδὼν ὑφαντοῖς ἐν πέπλοις Ἐρινύων
1580
τὸν ἄνδρα τόνδε κείμενον φίλως ἐμοί,
χερὸς πατρῴας ἐκτίνοντα μηχανάς.
Ἀτρεὺς γὰρ ἄρχων τῆσδε γῆς, τούτου πατήρ,
πατέρα θυέστην τὸν ἐμόν, ὡς τορῶς φράσαι,
αὑτοῦ δ᾽ ἀδελφόν, ἀμφίλεκτος ὢν κράτει,
1585
Ἀγαμέμνων (OCR draft) Experimental (Ἀγαμέμνων. Martin L. West, 1990.) — 1577 focus
Aeschyli Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschyli Agamemnon. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1914.) — 1577 focus
Translations (9)
Agamemnon Perseus (Aeschylus. The poetical works of Robert Browning, Volume 13. Browning, Robert, translator; Berdoe, Edward, editor. London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1889.) — 1577-1673 focus
The Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (The Agamemnon. Theodore Alois Buckley, 1849.) — 1577 focus
O kindly light of the day that brings retribution. Now I would pronounce that gods, the punishers of mortals from on high, look down upon the abominations of earth, beholding this man here lying, as is delightful to me, in the woven robes of the Furies, paying the penalty of the devices of his father's hand. For Atreus, the ruler of this land, his father, being a rival about the power, that I may speak clearly, banished from his city and his house Thyestes my father, his own brother. And wretched Thyestes, having come again a suppliant at the hearth, found a secure lot, so that he should not dying stain his paternal soil with his blood. But Atreus, the godless father of this man, with more zeal than love, pretending cheerfully to hold a day of banqueting by way of welcome to my father, served him a banquet of his children's flesh. The parts about the feet indeed, and the comb-like tips of the fingers, seated apart, he broke from those above 1
. And. having immediately in ignorance taken that part of the flesh which could not be distinguished, he eats a food, as thou seest, destructive to the race. And then, having discovered the unholy deed, he screamed, and falls back from the butchery vomiting: and on the descendants of Pelops he imprecates an intolerable doom, rightfully devoted to a curse the insult of the board 2
, so perish the whole race of Pleisthenes! In consequence of these things you may see this man fallen: and I am the righteous contriver of his slaughter, for he drives into exile me, the thirteenth child, along with my wretched sire. being a little one in swaddling-clothes. But Justice brought me back again when I had grown up. And I have reached this man though I was at a distance, having put together every contrivance for the sad conspiracy. Thus it is indeed glorious for me even to fall after I have seen him within the toils of Justice.
AGAMEMNON (OCR draft) Experimental (AGAMEMNON. Paul Mazon, 1920-1925.) — 1577 focus
désormais, sortant de cette maison, il s'en aille épuiser une autre race par ces meurtres domestiques. La moindre part me suffira des biens de
cette demeure, si j'arrive à bannir du palais cette fureur de mutuels homicides.
Agamemnon (OCR draft) Experimental (Agamemnon. Robert Potter, 1779.) — 1577 focus
Hail to this joyful day, whoſe welcome light
Brings vengeance! Now I know that the juſt Gods
Look from their ſkies, and puniſh impious mortals,
1755
Seeing this man roll’d in the blood-wove woof,
The tiſſue of the Furies, grateful ſight,
And ſuffering for his father’s fraudful crimes.
Atreus, his father, ſovereign of this land,
Brooking no rival in his pow’r, drove out
1760
My father and his brother, poor Thyeſtes,
A wretched exile:
from his country far
He wander’d; but at length return’d, and ſtood
A ſuppliant before the household Gods,
1765
Secure in their protection that his blood
Shou’d not diſtain the pavement.
This man’s father,
The ſacrilegious Atreus, with more ſhow
Of courtesy than friendſhip, ſpread the feaſt,
1770
Devoting, ſuch the fair pretence, the day
To hoſpitality and genial mirth:
Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli (OCR draft) Experimental (Eschilo, Agamennone: traduzione italiana di Ettore Romagnoli. Ettore Romagnoli, 1922.) — 1577 focus
O lieta luce, o dí della giustizia,
ora sí, posso dir che i Numi vindici
le pene dei mortali dal ciel mirano,
1855
ora ch'io vedo in questi pepli, orditi
dalle man' dell'Erinni, oh mia gran gioia!,
giacer quest'uomo, ed espiar l'insidia
delle mani paterne!
Atreo, signore
1860
di questa terra, il padre di costui,
col fratel suo, col padre mio Tieste,
pel potere contese;
e dalla reggia,
dalla città lo mise in bando: parlo
1865
di cose note.
Il misero Tieste
tornò, pregando, ai lari; ed ebbe certo
patto che mai non macchierà col proprio
sangue la terra dei suoi padri: questa.
1870
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: versio Latina Ioannis Sanravii. Ioannes Sanravius, 1555.) — 1577 focus
Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon: German translation. Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, 1919–1923.) — 1577 focus
trägst du das Zeichen der Weihe,
in Blut, das nimmer verbleichet.
Wohl hatte Hader im Hause
1580
gegründet den Ehebund,
dem Gatten des Elends Grund.
English (E. D. A. Morshead, 1889, second edition) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylus, Agamemnon — Morshead translation. Wikisource transcription; speech corresp and card milestones aligned to Smyth perseus-grc2.) — 1577 focus
Dawn of the day of rightful vengeance, hail!
I dare at length aver that gods above
Have care of men and heed of earthly wrongs.
I, I who stand and thus exult to see
This man lie wound in robes the Furies wove,
1855
Slain in requital of his father's craft.
Take ye the truth, that Atreus, this man's sire,
The lord and monarch of this land of old,
Held with my sire Thyestes deep dispute,
Brother with brother, for the prize of sway,
1860
And drave him from his home to banishment.
Thereafter, the lorn exile homeward stole
And clung a suppliant to the hearth divine,
And for himself won this immunity—
Not with his own blood to defile the land
1865
That gave him birth. But Atreus, godless sire
Of him who here lies dead, this welcome planned—
With zeal that was not love he feigned to hold
In loyal joy a day of festal cheer,
And bade my father to his board, and set
1870
Before him flesh that was his children once.
First, sitting at the upper board alone,
He hid the fingers and the feet, but gave
The rest—and readily Thyestes took
What to his ignorance no semblance wore
1875
Of human flesh, and ate: behold what curse
That eating brought upon our race and name!
For when he knew what all unhallowed thing
He thus had wrought, with horror's bitter cry
Back-starting, spewing forth the fragments foul,
1880
On Pelops' house a deadly curse he spake—
As darkly as I spurn this damnèd fool,
So perish all the race of Pleisthenes.
Thus by that curse fell he whom here ye see,
And I—who else?—this murder wove and planned;
1885
For me, an infant yet in swaddling bands,
Of the three 1 children youngest, Atreus sent
To banishment by my sad father's side:
But Justice brought me home once more, grown now
To manhood's years; and stranger thro' I was,
1890
My right hand reached unto the chieftain's life,
Plotting and planning all that malice bade.
And death itself were honour now to me,
Beholding him injustice' ambush ta'en.
German (J. J. C. Donner, 1854; OCR review) (OCR draft) Experimental (Aeschylos, Band I, Agamemnon. Independent Donner line citations, Smyth card correspondence, twelve located textual notes and opening metrical facsimiles. Unfinished OCR proofreading and note attribution are documented in the review inventory.) — 1577 focus
O holdes Licht des Tages, der mir Rache bringt!
Nun sag' ich laut, daß, richtend über Sterbliche,
Die Götter hochher auf der Erde Gräuel schau'n:
Denn hier in Schleier, die gewebt Erinnyen,
1530
Seh' ich den Todten eingehüllt, zur Wonne mir,
Der Frevel büßt, die seines Vaters Hand verübt!
Sein Vater Atreus, dieses Landes König, hat
Thyestes, meinen Vater, daß ihr's klar vernehmt,
Den eignen Bruder, hadernd um des Reichs Gewalt,
1535
Hinausgestoßen, weggebannt von Stadt und Haus.
Und wiederkehrend suchte Schuß am Hausaltar
Mein armer Vater und erlangte Sicherheit,
Daß nicht gemordet er mit seinem Blut den Grund
Der Väter färbte. Doch ein grauses Gastgeschenk
1540
Bot sein verruchter Vater nun dem meinen dar,
Atreus Thyesten, eifrig mehr als liebevoll.
Scheinbar zur Tagesfeier froh ein Festgelag
Bereitend, tischt er seiner Söhne Fleisch ihm auf.
Der Füße Spigen und der Hände Fingerkamm
1545
Verbarg er abwärts, daß die Tischgenossen nichts
Erkannten. Er, nicht wissend, was er nehme, nahm
Und aß vom Mahl, des Stammes Fluchmahl, wie du siehst.
Und als er endlich inne ward die Gräuelthat,
Wehklagt er, sinkt er nieder, würgt das Fleisch heraus,
1550
Nuft auf die Pelopiden grauses Leid herab,
Häuft auf das schnödentweihte Mahl gerechten Fluch,
So möge Tantals ganzes Haus zu Grunde geh'n.
Nach solchem Fluche kannst du den dort liegen seh'n:
Ich bin der Meister, der des Mordes Fäden spann.
1555
Denn mich, den dritten, nach den zwei Unglücklichen,
Verbannt er sammt dem Vater, klein in Windeln noch.
Erwachsen, führte Dike mich zur Nache heim.
Ich hatt' in fremdem Lande schon ihm nachgestellt,
Und alle Listen schlimmen Trugs um ihn gewebt.
1560
So wäre selbst zu sterben süße Wonne mir,
Nun Dike's Nez vor meinen Augen ihn umschlang.

Notes on the current edition

Agamemnon

1. Reference alignment provisional: inherited from Wecklein 1885; verify against the 1888 scan.

Commentary

Critical apparatus to Agamemnon (OCR draft) (Latin and Greek critical apparatus to Gottfried Hermann's 1852 edition of Agamemnon.) focus

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τρίτον γὰρ ὄντα μ' ἐπίδεχ' ἀθλίῳ πατρί Libri
τρίτον γὰρ ὄντα μ' ἐπὶ δέκ' ἀθλίῳ πατρί
, ad quod nemo offendit ante Emperium in Zimmermanni Diurnis a. 1835. p. 635. cui tamen et ibi et p. 1000. male cessit emendatio. Hyginus fab. 88. duos nominat Thyestae filios, qui mactati fuerint ab Atreo, Tantalum et Plisthenem; scholiastes Euripidis ad Or. v. 800. et Tzetzes Chil. 1. 18. v. 449. tres, Aglaum, Orchomenum, Callaeum; alii unum. Sed habuerit ille tredecim filios, etsi nihil de isto numero proditum est, certe ad summum tres mactari potuerunt, quod reliquos iam adolevisse necesse erat. Qui factum igitur ut horum nullus vindictam ab Atreo exigeret? Nec proficiat quis quicquam, si non filiorum, sed liberorum istum numerum fuisse statuat, ut pleraeque fuerint filiae. H. L. Ahrens scribendum coniecit
τρίτον γὰρ ὄντα μ' ἐπὶ δύ᾽ ἀθλίοιν πατρί
. Sed hoc neque veri similitudinem habet, et desideramus articulum vel pronomen, hoc modo
τρίτον γὰρ ὄντα μ' ἐπὶ δυοῖν τοῖνδ᾽ ἀθλίοιν
. In re admodum dubia, quum certam emendationem non invenirem, scripsi mutatione paene nulla
τρίτον γὰρ ὄντα μὲ ἐπίδεχ᾽ ἀθλίῳ πατρί.
Nihil quidem praesidii huic coniecturae affert quod Hesychius habet,
ἐπίδεχα
(codex
ἐπίδιχα
),
σκύφον τὸν μὴ κενόν
, ubi Lobeckius Paral. p. 278.
δ
et
χ
permutata esse coniiciens, suspicatus est
ἐπίδοιχα
scribendum esse. Quid autem si
ἐπίδεχα
passive dictum sit de eo qui post alios acceptus sit, ut hic de Aegistho post mactatos fratres patri nato?
1573

Wecklein’s commentary on Agamemnon (1888; German; OCR draft) (Explanatory commentary, pp. 30–140; Iowa and Harvard OCR collated conservatively. Unresolved OCR and provisional reference mappings are explicitly marked.) focus

1449-1576. mvp-aeschylus-tlg0085-tlg005-wecklein1888-com-ger1-789

Kommos bestehend aus drei Strophenpaaren. Die Chorpartieen bestehen immer aus drei Teilen, von welchen den ersten die drei στοίχοι (jeder στοίχος ein Strophenpaar), den zweiten der Koryphaios, den dritten der Gesamtchor vorzutragen scheint. Den Inhalt bildet die verschiedene Auffassung und die sittliche Motivierung des Rachewerks sowie die Anklage der Klytämestra. τίς ἂν Μοίρα: zu 627.

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1
,,Und wenn ich bloſs einen kleinen Teil des Besitztums habe, bin ich mit allem zufrieden, wenn ich nur die Wut des Wechselmords von dem Hause nehme." Vgl. zu 274.