Agamemnon's tomb
place · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
Father's ancestral tomb · father's tomb · mound · sepulchre · the tomb · tomb
in the texts
Orestes
The burial place of Agamemnon, visited first for private appeal and later for a joint prayer before the attack on Helen.
O father, in your home of gloomy night, your son Orestes calls you to come to the rescue of the destitute.
And guide me to my father’s tomb.
O kinsman of my father, Agamemnon, hear my prayers also;
Electra
Agamemnon's tomb is the burial mound where offerings and a lock of hair suggest Orestes' return.
When I came to Father’s ancestral tomb, I saw that streams of milk had recently flowed from the top of the mound and that his sepulchre was encircled with garlands of all flowers that grow.
I crept nearer to the tomb, and on the mound’s edge I saw a lock of hair, freshly severed.
Whom else does that tomb concern, save me and you?