Agamemnon


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Agamemnon

[‚ag·ə′mem·nən]
(astronomy)
An asteroid, one of a group of Trojan planets whose periods of revolution are approximately equal to that of Jupiter, or about 12 years.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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Capital Product Partners has agreed new long-term time charters with Mediterranean Shipping Company for the M/V 'Agamemnon' and the M/V 'Archimidis'.
The first member of the public to give the piano a try was Agamemnon Krasoulis, a regular station visitor who was delighted to see a piano returned to the concourse.
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return of their king, Agamemnon, who has been away for ten years
Since the dawn of Western literature, the name of Clytemnestra, wife of Agamemnon and Queen of Mycenae, has been declined time after time as a very prolific metronymic with variable spellings, Aeschylean wordplays, and everlasting meanings.
For this second edition, she has added Aeschylus' Agamemnon to complete the Oresteia trilogy.
Add to this the sparkling Oreste of mezzo-soprano Charlotte Gagnon and the somewhat pompous Agamemnon of baritone, Dominic Veilleux.
Back in 1876, a German archaeologist found a golden mask he thought belonged to king Agamemnon. It is one of the highlights of a major exhibition on Mycenaean culture, one of Europe's earliest civilizations.The Schloss Karlsruhe Museum is hosting the largest exhibition ever held on Mycenaean Greece's cultural history.
It all starts when Agamemnon (Electra's father) returns from Troy and is murdered by his wife and her lover.
Comprised of three plays (Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Furies) it is the only surviving example of the ancient trilogy form for Greek tragedies.
Starting in Thessaloniki, the ship will pass the site of the Marquette en route to Lemnos, where the Treaty of Mudros was signed on October 30, 1918, on board HMS Agamemnon, ending the war with the Turks.
The soliloquy delivered by the Watchman at the outset of Agamemnon