...-SNR, R-filter images of Hektor and Agamemnon have been used to search for the presence of a faint coma around the targets (the R filter has been selected as the most suitable to detect any faint dust activity around the nucleus, eventually driven by residual low-level ice sublimation). In all...

... and crown ( Khoualdia et al. 1993 ). The larva of the moth Ectomyelois ceratoniae Zeller (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) infests the dates internally. An emerging pest of date palm declared since 1995 ( Khoualdia et al. 1997 ) is the Oryctes agamemnon Burmeister (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae), which...

... significant differences in the average number of O. agamemnon arabicus collected per trap among the tested light colors (F = 176.31; df = 7, 10; P = < 0.0001). The highest numbers were collected with white light traps (mean weekly catch: 46.82 ± 2.9), which was significantly...

...No reading of prophetic language, and no reading of Humboldt’s reflections on language, could proceed without attending closely to Cassandra’s speech in the Agamemnon, to which this chapter is devoted. There, it will turn out that translation is the original problem of prophecy...

...Playwright Charles Mee is interviewed by theater director and performance historian Erin Mee (his daughter) about the adaptations of Greek tragedy that he has staged since the 1990s, including Orestes 2.0, Bacchae 2.1, Agamemnon, Trojan...

...This chapter analyzes Virginia Woolf's 1925 essay “On Not Knowing Greek” as part of the longer Victorian legacy of Ladies' Greek and places it within the context of Woolf's earlier Greek studies. Focusing on Woolf's Agamemnon notebook, the chapter examines how the strange utterance...

... of philosophy and science as well as historiography. The chapter draws attention to three archaeological discoveries and the way their evidential value has been assessed: a gold mask, discovered in 1876 in the first of the ‘shaft graves’ at Mycenae, the so-called tomb of Agamemnon; an artefact discovered...

... to God. Iphigenia reminds Agamemnon that his role as a father takes precedence over his role as a military and political leader of Greece, while Isaac reminds his father Abraham of his erstwhile devotion to the family triangle of father-mother-son. This chapter also explores some of the ways in which...

...This chapter tells the story of Ajax from four different points of view: Odysseus, King Agamemnon, Ajax's wife Tecmessa, and the old counselor Nestor. It asks whether any of them could have done something to prevent the loss of Ajax. It details Odysseus's reflections about how the army destroyed...

...Previously published in Classical Philology 75 (1980) 68-69, this is a note on ‘hunc’ in Epistles 1.2 line 13 arguing that the man of passion must be Achilles, not Agamemnon. Horace Epistle 1.2 Achilles Agamemnon Briseis Antenor censet belli praecidere...

... that is firmly under his influence. The chapter deals with every meeting in turn—Agamemnon, Achilles, and Ajax—and demonstrates that the ‘poetics of Hades’, namely the individualized, subjective, and emotional take on the past already observed in the book, applies also, or perhaps more markedly, to the great...

...This chapter shows that whereas early humanists looked to the Greeks Odysseus and Nestor as the respective embodiments of prudence and wisdom, the Huguenot poet and scholar Jean de Sponde’s commentary on the Iliad (1583) tended to focus instead on Agamemnon and Achilles, who...

...Aeschylus' Oresteia is a trilogy comprised of Agamemnon, Choephori (Libation Bearers), and Eumenides. Agamemnon presents the return of the king to Argos after the fall of Troy. For the Greeks the nostos...

...This chapter provides the commentary for Joseph of Exeter's The Trojan War, which includes Iliadum lacrimas or the author's use for various synonyms for Troy or Trojan. It explains the two wars that refer to the first sacking of Troy by Hercules and the second by Agamemnon...

...This chapter provides the original text of Sophocles's play about Ajax. It talks about how the play began with the death of Achilles and Ajax's desire to be rewarded with his armor. It also mentions Ajax's shame and intention of suicide after killing Agamemnon and Menelaus when they gave Achilles's...

..., focusing especially upon the quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon in book 1 and the embassy in book 9. Analysis shows that while Agamemnon offers Achilles quantities of tangible goods, Achilles conceives of the wrong done him as a violation of trust rather than material loss. For Achilles, the value...

... for controlling and directing the future in a way that will ultimately lead to his own liberation. In Agamemnon, Clytemnestra uses Hephaestus’ fire to map space instantaneously. Her control of the god’s technology is aligned with her scandalous power over every other aspect of the action...

... in relation to his very different translations of Alkestis and Agamemnon, and in terms of the Victorian translation debate. Aristophanes' Apology Browning Barrett Elizabeth Browning Robert Murray Gilbert atheism Balaustion's Adventure Browning King Roma A Ring...

.... Then, the sensitive reading of Eduard Fraenkel’s magisterial Agamemnon (from Aeschylus’ play Agamemnon) hints at the profound emotional impact of exile on a scholar. academic refugees Howard Leslie Bentwich Norman Cecil Robert Viscount Cecil of Chelwood League of Nations...

...This chapter examines the presentation of Zeus in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. He desires that Agamemnon should lead the Greek army to punish the Trojans for Paris's abduction of Helen, yet sends an omen which angers Artemis into forcing Agamemnon to choose between sacrificing his...