Agamemnon: ‘To kill my home’s delight’

David Mulroy, emeritus professor of foreign languages and linguistics at UWM, reads a passage from his recent translation of “Agamemnon,” by Aeschylus, the first of the great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece.

From “Agamemnon by Aeschylus, a verse translation” by David Mulroy, with introduction and notes. Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2016 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.