# Loeb Agamemnon prints the on-stage aftermath of a husband’s murder as civic teaching about vengeance

Date: 1922

## The fact

Smyth’s Loeb Agamemnon gives English readers the play in which Clytemnestra kills the returning king, a public teaching of household and war violence. It is not a crime statistic for 1922 London.

## Context

Tragedy can deter and can glamourise. Stored as a worsening humanitarian-imagination path of medium confidence: a canonical murder-story in schools, with the court settlement on the Eumenides row.

[Aeschylus](/people/aeschylus) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official library, festival, encyclopedia, or edition pages and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Perseus — Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Smyth) (https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0003; Perseus Digital Library / Tufts).

## Significance

A printed murder is not a real palace. Do not write a 458 police file.

A printed murder is not a real palace. Do not write a 458 police file.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.
Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, and museums are not converted into extra lifetime acts. The attached driver is [humanitarian-access](/drivers/humanitarian-access). The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself. Confidence is stated on the impact path. A later English edition is not a recovered autograph. If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## People

- Aeschylus: https://factrail.ai/people/aeschylus

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.britannica.com/topic/Oresteia
- https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0003

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/ae-clytemnestra-killing-as-printed